This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Stanley Boxer was born in New York City in 1925. He drew obsessively as a child, often sketching the cowboys and Indians he saw in movies. He entered the Navy at the age of sixteen to fight in World War II.
After the war his older brother encouraged him to apply to the Art Students League, where an instructor told him he had talent and ought to start taking classes immediately. He won a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He became a noted painter and sculptor but preferred being known as a 'practitioner' because he believed that constant practice was the only way to excel at art.
The titles of Boxer's works were deliberately ambiguous; his titles were attempts at verbal equivalents of the painted gesture. He was known for troweling on pigment, using his fingers, brushes and a palette knife to create textures and patterns. He died on May 11, 2000.
Sources include:
American Artists, Les Krantz, Publisher
Obituary in LA Times
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from: www.salander.com/artists/artists_estates/boxer.html
Selected Collections, United States:
McDonald's Corporation, Woodland Hills
Missouri William Jewell College, Liberty
New Jersey New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Business Comm. for the Arts, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
IBM Corporation, New York
Ohio Corning Glass Corporation
Pennsylvania TSO Financial Corporation, Willow Grove
Inexco Corporation, Houston
Selected Permanent Collections, Foreign:
Australia Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Austria Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna
Canada Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Denmark Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen
India Birla Museum of Art
Awards:
1975 Guggenheim Fellowship
1989 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1992 Elected to the National Academy of Design
1993 Elected as Full Member, National Academy of Design
1997 Selected for annual Print Club of New York Print Commission, aquatint etching edition of 200
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