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Sydney Butchkes

Sydney Butchkes (October 13, 1920 – August 10, 2015) was an American visual artist and designer. He worked as a painter, sculptor, art director, illustrator, and graphic designer. Butchkes was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1985.

Sydney Butchkes was born on October 13, 1920, in Covington, Kentucky, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. However some sources state he was born in 1922. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati), the Art Students League of New York, and The New School in New York City. During World War II, he served in the United States Army.

In the early 1960s, he moved to Sagaponack in Long Island. Butchkes died at home on August 10, 2015, in Sagaponack.

His artwork is in museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, and The Newark Museum of Art.

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