 From 1971 to his death he was artist-in-residence and chairman of the art department of St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York.The summers of 1976 and 1977 he taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where he had attended summer school while in High School.Midgette's mature style was characterized by life-size realist images of full figures, mostly clothed, in a space that could be seen as a continuation of the viewers' space.