| 1917 |
Born in Anadarko, OK (June 27, 1917) |
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| 1935 – 1936 |
Attended Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
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| 1936 – 1939 |
Attended The Art Students League, New York, NY and studied under Arnold Blanch. Other influences there included Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Picken, William C. McNulty, John Carroll and John Groth |
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| 1930’s |
Spent summers in Woodstock, NY |
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| 1939 – 1940 |
Artist and political cartoonist, Common Sense magazine |
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| 1940 |
Attended The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, under scholarship and studied under Arnold Blanch. Other influences there were Adolph Dehn and Boardman Robinson |
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| 1940 – 1941 |
Worked with Denys Wortman, creator of the “Metropolitan Movies” newspaper cartoons |
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| 1941 – 1942 |
Staff artist/editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO |
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| 1943 – 1946 |
WW II, Active Duty, U.S. Army |
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| 1946 – 1948 |
Freelance artist in New York for publications including The New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Herald Tribune, The New York Star, The American Mercury and Survey Graphic |
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| 1949 – 1951 |
Studied with Fernand Leger in Paris under the G.I. Bill |
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| 1949 |
Married to Mildred (“Millie”) Ann Johnson in Paris, October 22nd, 1949 |
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| 1951 |
Returned to the United States from France |
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| 1952 |
Executed F. Leger Murals at the United Nations, New York, NY |
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| 1952 – 1956 |
Color and Design Consultant, Harrison & Abramovitz Architects, New York, NY |
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| 1956 |
Completed murals at the Franklin D. Roosevelt School, P.S. 34, Avenue D and 34th Street, in New York City |
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| 1956-57 |
Art Instructor, Union College, Schenectady, NY |
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| 1957 |
Completed Map Mural, Civil Defense Headquarters, New York, NY |
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| 1959-1960 |
Mexico City & San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
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| 1960s |
Spent summers in Woodstock, NY and winters in Sarasota, FL |
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| 1961 – 1984 |
Instructor, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida |
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| 1968 |
Teacher, friend and mentor Arnold Blanch died at 72, in Woodstock, NY |
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| 1969 – 1970 |
Spent summers in Eastport, Maine |
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| 1972 |
Conducted fine arts evaluation of Florida’s WPA, New Deal era murals for the U.S. General Services Administration |
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| 1972 |
Summer in Ibiza, Spain and travel in France |
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| 1973 – 1974 |
Spent summers in Eastport, Maine |
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| 1976 |
Divorced after twenty-seven years of marriage |
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| 1977 |
Twinrocker – Indiana, visiting artist, work in handmade paper |
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| 1980s |
Became a Jehovah’s Witness |
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| 1982 |
Twinrocker – Indiana; visiting artist |
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| 1982 -1983 |
Art Institute of Chicago – Oxbow, Michigan, visiting artist, work in handmade paper |
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| 1984 |
Retired from Ringling School of Art & Design and devoted himself exclusively to his own art work |
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| 1987 – 1988 |
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
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| 1988 – 1989 |
President, Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL |
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| 2002 |
Died, Sarasota, Florida on August 23, 2002 |
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Teaching Experience:
Union College, Schenectady, NY 1956-57
Painting and Drawing, Lecture Class Modern Art
Private Instruction, Newburgh, NY 1959-60
Painting and Drawing
John Heron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1960-61
Mural, Advanced Painting, Figure
University of Notre Dame, Indiana 1961
History of Modern Art, Painting
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL 1960-1984
History of Art, Landscape, Color and Design, Drawing, Pictorial Composition and Figure
Galleries:
Medici Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1975-76
Hansen Galleries, New York, NY 1974-76
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, 1977-80
Sragow Gallery, New York, 1980
Hodgell-Hartman Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1977-81
Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton 1978-83
vanStraaten Gallery, Chicago 1978-80
Flax Gallery, New York 1978-81
Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York 1978-79
Gilman Gallery, Chicago 1978-82
Expressions Gallery, Boca Grande, FL 1983-84
Stanley & Schenck Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1984
Gallery 600, Largo, FL 1985
Nuance Galleries, Tampa, FL 1988
Foster Harmon Galleries, Sarasota, FL 1989-91
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach 1984, 1994
Third Street Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan 1991
Donn Roll Galleries, Sarasota, FL 1994 - 1996
Ken Elias Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL 1999
Wallace Fine Art, Longboat Key, FL 1997 - 2002
