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1946 Chicago, Illinois - 2023. Known for: Indian figure, portrait and genre painting.
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In... Read full biography
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, he studied with Glen Villpu and Harry Carmean at the Los Angeles Art Center. A turning... Read full biography
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, he studied with Glen Villpu and Harry Carmean at the Los Angeles Art Center. A turning point in his career was finding a model, later his wife, who was three-fourths Mexican and one-part Indian. The marriage ended but in his painting he continued to concentrate on Native-American... Read full biography
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, he studied with Glen Villpu and Harry Carmean at the Los Angeles Art Center. A turning point in his career was finding a model, later his wife, who was three-fourths Mexican and one-part Indian. The marriage ended but in his painting he continued to concentrate on Native-American portraits, figure and genre. He spent a period working in his father's studio in Chicago and then settled in Scottsdale, Arizona.... Read full biography
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, he studied with Glen Villpu and Harry Carmean at the Los Angeles Art Center. A turning point in his career was finding a model, later his wife, who was three-fourths Mexican and one-part Indian. The marriage ended but in his painting he continued to concentrate on Native-American portraits, figure and genre. He spent a period working in his father's studio in Chicago and then settled in Scottsdale, Arizona.... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art Teacher
- •Theodore Lukits, Lukits Academy of Fine Arts
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty