Harold Linton was born in 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the shadow of Carnegie-Mellon University. During high school, he attended CMU pre-college art classes in drawing, design, and calligraphy with Arnold Bank. He studied at the Lowe School of Art at Syracuse University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and design in 1969. While at Syracuse, Linton successfully competed for the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in painting. He went on to study painting and design at the Yale Graduate School of Art earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting with studies in architecture in 1972. Linton has had an extensive academic career, having served as Director of the School of Art from 2005 – 2013, College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Previously, Linton served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005 developing scholarships, endowments, professional lectures and exhibition programs, internet technology initiatives, international study programs, and new undergraduate and graduate art and design studio concentrations. He is the author of nineteen books and numerous journal articles on design, drawing, architecture, and color. Several published works have become adopted texts throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Linton has served as visiting lecturer in design at over 100 schools of art and architecture. Linton’s 'Portfolio Design', first published in 1996 by W.W. Norton and Company, New York, is now in its fourth full-color edition. Linton is the recipient of more than thirty citations from leading art and design schools, noting his work as a prized resource. In its various iterations and editions, more than 200 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad have adopted Portfolio Design. Linton’s work on color is also the subject of articles and interviews in the New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, Departures Magazine, and numerous journals. Today, Linton is considered one of the well-known authorities on portfolio design for professional development in architecture, fine arts, and allied design disciplines and he is a leading proponent of color in architecture and the built environment. Linton’s ‘Grid Series’, 1970 – 1995 includes the work, “ASK”, 1982, 60” x 78” [a/c], which is a testimony to a compelling body of work that lead his career from the late 1970’s into the ‘Constructs’ of the early 1990s and onto the “Arcs” series of 2010 – present. His gallery representation in Florida over the years, and works from the Grid Series, have appeared on exhibition at the Hokin Gallery and Medici-Berenson Gallery and on the popular television show of the 1980s, ‘Miami Vice’. SELECTED EXHIBITIONSSolo Exhibition, "Open Lines", Solo Exhibition New Sculpture, Gillespie Gallery of Art, School of Art, George Mason University, June 22, 2019 - July 26, 2019.Fixed, Measured, and Leveled: Works by Richard Franklin, Harold Linton, Peter Winant. Fine Arts Gallery, School of Art, GMU. March 5, 2014.School of Art, Fundraising Exhibitions: George Mason University, “Off the Wall, 2014, 2015. First Prize:Public Commission (relief construction) Fortunes of Nature, 18’-0” x 12’-0” x 1’-6” Exhibition Public Entrance and Reception Area. 1999 – 2000. The Richard M. DeVos Business School and International Trade Center of Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. $50 million building project for Grand Valley State University. Open in Fall 2000. First Prize:The Muskegon Regional Airport, national competition sponsored by the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan. Fall 1997. Relief Construction, Arcs of the Concord, installation in gate area of the terminal building.