Stanley Mitruk - Artist Info

About Stanley Mitruk

  • Biography

    From the book Stanley Matthew Mitruk, Portrait of a Chicago Artist (Used by permission from the author, Jeffrey Cobb )

    Stanley Matthew Mitruk was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 22, 1922. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941 through 1942, and at Jane Addams Hull House as a private student of Julio De Diego in 1943. He worked for the Chicago Art Institute Museum, first in the print department, then designing installations in the Photography Gallery, and later as assistant to Mrs. Kathryn Kuh in the Gallery of Art Interpretation. He taught crafts at the Arden Shore School for Boys, in Lake Bluff, Illinois, and Commercial Art at the Ray Vogue School, in Chicago, from 1949 to 19...

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