Painter, muralist. Born in Le Mars, IA on Dec. 23, 1873 of Scottish parents. Luvena Vysekal was educated in Pittsburgh, KS. During 1910-14 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John... Read full biography
Painter, muralist. Born in Le Mars, IA on Dec. 23, 1873 of Scottish parents. Luvena Vysekal was educated in Pittsburgh, KS. During 1910-14 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Harry Walcott, and John Warner Norton. At that school she met artist Edouard Vysekal. They... Read full biography
Painter, muralist. Born in Le Mars, IA on Dec. 23, 1873 of Scottish parents. Luvena Vysekal was educated in Pittsburgh, KS. During 1910-14 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Harry Walcott, and John Warner Norton. At that school she met artist Edouard Vysekal. They were married in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1914 to paint murals in the Barbara Worth Hotel in El Centro. After settling in California, Mrs. Vysekal further studied with Stanton... Read full biography
Painter, muralist. Born in Le Mars, IA on Dec. 23, 1873 of Scottish parents. Luvena Vysekal was educated in Pittsburgh, KS. During 1910-14 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Harry Walcott, and John Warner Norton. At that school she met artist Edouard Vysekal. They were married in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1914 to paint murals in the Barbara Worth Hotel in El Centro. After settling in California, Mrs. Vysekal further studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. In 1922, under the pseudonym Benjamin Blue, she authored Counterfeit Presentations, a series of character sketches of local artists. Upon the death of her husband in 1939, she became director of the Vysekal Gallery in Hollywood. Mrs. Vysekal... Read full biography
Painter, muralist. Born in Le Mars, IA on Dec. 23, 1873 of Scottish parents. Luvena Vysekal was educated in Pittsburgh, KS. During 1910-14 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Harry Walcott, and John Warner Norton. At that school she met artist Edouard Vysekal. They were married in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1914 to paint murals in the Barbara Worth Hotel in El Centro. After settling in California, Mrs. Vysekal further studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. In 1922, under the pseudonym Benjamin Blue, she authored Counterfeit Presentations, a series of character sketches of local artists. Upon the death of her husband in 1939, she became director of the Vysekal Gallery in Hollywood. Mrs. Vysekal was a resident of Los Angeles until her death on Jan. 11, 1954. Her sister was sculptor Ella Buchanan. EXH. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (20)
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
Emerging from the Shadows: Volume Four, (S-Z) A Survey Of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
2015
St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor)
336 pages (color)
Love Never Fails: The Arts of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal (Pasadena Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian
82 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989
Hughes, Edan Milton
637 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary
1984
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
291 pages
Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California Before 1930 (Publications in Southern California Art)
1984
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
0 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years
1939
Ness, Zenobia; Louise Orwig
253 pages (color)
American Art Annual 1933
1933
Editors, American Federation of Arts
0 pages
First Exhibition of Works by Former Students and Instructors of the Art Institute of Chicago: Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Work by the Alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago