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Mead was born in New Jersey in 1900. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and in New York at the Art Students’ League and the Grand Central School of Art with George Luks. Together with a group of other artists he moved to Majorca in 1931; there, he married New Mexico born Jarvis Kerr. Moving to Paris in 1934, they met Stanley William Hayter and Mead began to work at Atelier 17.

In 1939, with the onset of World War II, the Meads left for Carlsbad, New Mexico where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to teach, paint and create prints and maintained a close connection with Atelier 17 in New York.

Mead exhibited extensively throughout his life, both in Europe and the U.S. and was a member of the Societe des Sur Independents de Paris, American Watercolor Society, Society of Graphic Artists and the Princeton Print Club. He was included in the 1944 exhibition, “Hayter and Studio 17,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the 1949 exhibition, Atelier 17 Group, at the Laurel Gallery. Mead’s work is represented in the Carnegie Institute, the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.