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Joseph Fleck
View on WikipediaJoseph Amadeus Fleck (August 25, 1892 – April 5, 1977) was an American painter and muralist. His works include The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach, in Hugo, Oklahoma,[1] and First Mail Crossing Raton Pass and Unloading the Mail in Raton, in Raton, New Mexico.[2]
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Biography
[edit]Joseph A. Fleck was born in Austria in 1892 and received his academic training at the Royal Viennese Art Academy and Royal Art Academy in Munich. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 and then settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1925. From 1942 to 1946 he was Dean of Fine Arts and artist in residence at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
Awards
[edit]- Arizona State Fair, First Prize, 1928
- Kansas City Art Institute, 1923, 1929, 1934 (prize)
- Art Institute of Chicago, 1927 (prize)[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Marling (1982), pp. 272–276.
- ^ Marling (1982), p. 184.
- ^ Falk (1999), p. 1139.
References
[edit]- Falk, Peter (1999). Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 400 Years of Artists in America. Sound View Press. ISBN 0932087558.
- Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (1st ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816611165.
Further reading
[edit]- Fleck, Joseph Jr. (2006). The Life and Art of Joseph Amadeus Fleck: A Fine Sense of Poetry. e-Pluribus Unum Books. ISBN 0-9760045-8-5.
- d'Emilio, Sandra (1985). Joseph A. Fleck : an Early Taos Painter. Museum of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780890131527.
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