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William Hekking, American born 1885-1970 browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900: Item # 1180879
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| Oil on canvas, Approx. 15" x 21.5" Signed and dated 1909. Bio from ask art.com: Born Chelsea, WI, Mar. 10, 1885;. died Portland, ME, May 1970. Painter. Illustrator. Etcher. Teacher. Graduated from Syracuse University in 1908. Studied with Richard Miller at the Art Students League, NY, and with John Paul Laurens at the Academié Julian in Paris. Taught at University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1916-22, as a drawing instructor. In 1923 he was Director of Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and Columbus Art School in Ohio. In 1925 he was Director of Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, 101 NY, and from 1937-37 was an art critic for Buffalo Evening News. Served as a curator of art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1937-38. Source: AWARDS: Gold medal, Kansas City Art Institute, 1922; Huntington Prize, Columbus Society of Artists, 1924; First prize, Wilmington Society of Artists, 1926; First fellowship prize, Buffalo Society of Artists, 1931. COLLECTIONS: Decorations in National History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Albright Art Gallery; Butler Institute of American Art; Delaware Art Museum; Farnsworth Art Museum; Columbus Museum of Art MEMBERSHIPS: College Art Association; Wilmington Society of Painters; Salmagundi Club. SOURCES: Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)" American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 13/14/18/19/20/22/24/26; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47.1; Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; Annual Exhibition of the Artists of Kansas City and Vicinity (Kansas City Art Institute, 1915-21) 1917, 1920; Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1922; Julian; AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Dec. 16, 2005; KU Archives File (Faculty & Staff at the University of Kansas, card catalog file located in the Spencer Research Library); Oils and Watercolors. (Rockland, Me. : William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1962) | ||
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