American painter, printmaker, and art instructor. Seymour grew up on Chicago's immigrant west side to Russian/Polish parents. 1943 was drafted into the US Army where he illustrated military training publications. His deployment to Europe opened him to opportunities to study at the Louve, after which he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1951 where he received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. respectively. He was a part of a group of artists called the "Monster Roster" that started around the late 1940s as a reaction to war, politics, and the individuals' loss of power in modern life, etc. (to give a few examples). He won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1958 and worked in Rome, the same year he met and married his wife, Carol Rawson. Later worked at the American Academy in 1963. Received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962, a Copley Foundation grant in 1969 and a Cassandra Foundation grant in 1973, all to fund his stay in Paris. After returning to Chicago with his family, he taught at Loop Junior College (Chicago City Colleges) from 1964 until his death in 1981.
