John C. Menihan_chronology_Two Boats Gallery_Ginny ONeil

1908 John Conway Menihan is born February 14 in Rochester, New York

1924 While in high school designs a cover for Five O'Clock, a magazine published by Rochester journalist Henry Clune

1926 Enters the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania where he designs sets, posters and program covers for the Mask and Wig Club

1930 After seeing an exhibition of lithographs by Rochester architect Walter Cassebeer, acquires a lithographic press and stones

1931 Begins to draw portraits of socialites and newsmakers for Town Tidings - The Magazine of Western New York and the Rochester Times Union

1934 Makes the first of two trips to Zena, near Woodstock, NY, to study with master lithographer Bolton Brown

1937 Exhibits lithograph in International Printmakers Exhibiton, Los Angles, Museum of Art

1938 Exhibits several lithographs at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo

1939 Exhibits lithograph at the New York World's Fair Show

1942 Temporarily gives up art to work in family business, which makes parachutes during World War II

1945 "John C. Menihan, Lithographer" by Norman Kent is published in American Artist

1947 Wins four First Prizes - in oil painting, watercolor, printmaking and drawing - in the Memorial Art Gallery's Finger Lakes Exhibition

1947 Begins teaching at the University of Rochester

1950 Paints portrait of Frank E. Gannett

1951 Exhibits serigraph print at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg

1952 Designs children's store for B. Forman Company department store in Brighton, NY

1957 Designs and constructs "St Jerome" stained-glass window at Nazareth College's Lorette Wilmot Library in Pittsford, NY
Creates a shrine to St Joseph for St Louis Catholic Church in Pittsford, NY
Paints portrait of Bishop James E. Kearney for St John Fisher College in Pittsford, NY

1960 Designs and executes mural for Xerox Research and Engineering Center in Rochester

1964 Designs and executes 112-foot mural for Security Trust Company in Rochester

1965 Creates Stations of the Cross for Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Brighton, NY

1967 Designs and executes mural for Rochester Telephone (the mural is now located at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf)

1968 Designs and executes mural for the R.T. French Company

1974 Creates a relief sculpture of "Our Lady of the Grapes" in the garden of St Januarius Church in Naples, NY

1978 Creates a triptych depicting the life of St. Elizabeth Seton at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Irondequoit, NY

1983 Retrospective exhibiton is held at Nazareth College in Pittsford, NY

1988 "John C. Menihan; Prints from the 1930s and 1940s" displayed at The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

1992 John Menihan dies at his Rochester home, September 4