Lloyd Chester Foltz - Artist Info

About Lloyd Chester Foltz

  • Biography

    Born Pottawatomie County, Sept. 24, 1897; died Wichita, May 25, 1990. Etcher. Lithographer. Block printmaker, specialized in rural scenes.

    Teacher. Studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Lived in Topeka and then in Wichita. Taught at the Wichita Art Association. Worked for Western Lithograph Co.

    SOURCES:
    Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
    Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 26; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1; Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585.; Kansas Magazine 1933, 1934, 1935; Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1929-33, 1937-39; Wichita Eagle (May 28, 1990); AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Sept. 2, 2005; Ross, Novelene. Lloyd Foltz: A Retrospective. (Wichita: Wichita Art Museum, 1992)

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