About Ray Prohaska

  • Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store

    Painter, illustrator. Born in Mulo, Yugoslavia on Feb. 5, 1901. Prohaska came to the U.S. with his family in 1909. A graduate of the California School of Fine Arts, he had a studio on Sutter Street in San Francisco for a few years as a young man, and from 1921 until 1929 he owned and ran an art service in Chicago, Illinois. He then moved to NYC where he embarked upon a successful career as an illustrator for Woman's Home Companion and other national magazines. He taught at the Art Students League of New York City in 1961 and then was artist-in-residence at Washington and Lee University.

    Prohaska died in East Hampton, New York in October 1981.

    Member:
    Audubon Society; Bohemian Club.

    Exh:
    Bohemian Club, 1928; Audubon Artists, 1954 (medal); Society of Illustrators, 1963 (gold medal).

    In:
    Butler Inst.; Univ. of Illinois; Georgia Museum; Phoenix Museum.

    Sources:
    WWAA 1940-1970; SS.

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