Nationally recognized painter, lithographer, and art educator, born in 1904 in El Dorado, KS. Family moved to Wichita in 1906, where he spent the rest of his life. After instruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, he accepted a teaching position with the School of the Wichita Art Association, later known as Wichita’s Center for the Arts. He later served as director of the association from 1933 until retirement in 1971, shaping the direction of Kansas’s art through several generations of students.

 

Considered the “Last Great Kansas Regionalist”, he remains the most representative painter and printmaker in Kansas art history, a monument to the greatest days of the Regionalist movement in this nation.

 

Recipient of numerous awards gained from competitive exhibitions in some of the nation’s most prestigious museums, his work has been exhibited in one-man and group shows throughout America and Canada, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.