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Stuyvesant Van Veen BIOGRAPHY
1910 New York City - 1987 New York City. Known for: Mod architecture, rural and city genre painting, murals.
Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at... Read full biography
Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. One of his best- known works is a series of seven murals in... Read full biography
Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. One of his best- known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted murals at the 1938 Worlds Fair. Mr. Van Veen painted... Read full biography
Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. One of his best- known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted murals at the 1938 Worlds Fair. Mr. Van Veen painted over 30 murals in Public buildings, private homes and institutions throughout the country during his career. Stuyvesant studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, New York School of Industrial Art, The National Academy of Design, The Art... Read full biography
Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. One of his best- known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted murals at the 1938 Worlds Fair. Mr. Van Veen painted over 30 murals in Public buildings, private homes and institutions throughout the country during his career. Stuyvesant studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, New York School of Industrial Art, The National Academy of Design, The Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton and the City College of New York. Mr. Van Veen was also a... Read full biography
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Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in NYC, Sept, 12, 1910. He emerged on the art scene in 1929 at the age of 19 when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of morden paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
One of his best- known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted murals at the 1938 Worlds Fair. Mr. Van Veen painted over 30 murals in Public buildings, private homes and institutions throughout the country during his career.
Stuyvesant studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, New York School of Industrial Art, The National Academy of Design, The Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton and the City College of New York.
Mr. Van Veen was also a teacher, lecturer, book illustrator and set designer and research Associate in Department of Anthropology at Columbia University (1935-1938) . He also taught painting and drawing at City College of New York from 1949-1975. In 1972, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters.
National and Museum Exhibitions;
Cincinnati Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Watercolor Society, Architectural League, Knox Albright Gallery, Minneapolis Art Institute, Art U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum, National Academy of Design,
Boston Museum, National Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, New York Watercolor Society, Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute, and Whitney Museum.
One Man Exhibitions: (1928-54)
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dayton, Minneapolis, Syracuse, Rochester and Covington, Ky.
Awards:
1933- Metropolitan Fellowship, Arts Students League of New York,
1934- Riverside Memorial Chapel
1934 National Competition: Library Mural, Carl Mackley Housing Project, Juanita Park, Pennsylvania.
1935-Pittsburgh Post Office, Court House, U.S. Treasury Department (National).
1936- MacDowell Club painting Competition.
1945-First Prize (oil) Ohio Valley Annual, Athens, Ohio.
1945-Wright Field Army Contest, 2 First Prizes and one Honorable Mention.
1945-Statewide Army Art Contest- Special Prize, mural.
1946-First Prize and Purchase Prize (Watercolor) for Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
1961- Childe Hassam Purchase Award- American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Collections:
University of Minnesota,
Living Arts Foundation, N.Y.,
Walker Art Center
Syracuse Museum of Art
New Jersey State Museum
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Science
Ohio University
Stuyvesant Van Veen died in New York at the age 77, in 1987.
The Source is a person who wishes to remain anonymous and who writes that the biography is from "some biographical material I received years ago from someone who purchased part of (Stuart) Van Veen's estate which included a portfolio of some his murals, newpaper clippings, gallery listings and few of his paintings."