Occupation: Muralist, Educator Media: Multimedia, Buon Fresco. Born Auburn, New York, October 25, 1916.
Education Kansas City Art Inst, Missouri, with Thomas Hart Benton & Fletcher Martin, certification (painting & printmaking). Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center & Colorado Coll, with Boardman Robinson & Jean Charlot, BA & MA (mural painting). Yale Univ, with Josef Albers & Carol Meeks, MFA (painting).
Honorary Degrees Park Coll, Kansas City, Missouri, DFA, 95. Univ Colorado, LHD, 97.
Commissioned Works Fresco mural, Univ Ill, Urbana, 52; mixed media mural, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, Utah, 58; mixed media mural, Univ Missouri, Kansas City, 75; mixed media mural, St Paul Sch, Skokie, Ill; 12 panel mural, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, 86; mixed media mural, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, Kansas, 88; 8 panel mural, Loveland Mus, Colorado, 88; fresco mural, Park Coll Libr, Missouri, 91; 36 panel mural, Pioneer Mus, Colorado Springs, 94; 8 panel mural, Colorado Springs Airport, 95.
Public Works Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Missouri State Hist Soc Collection, Columbia; Brigham Young Univ Mus Art; Nelson Atkins Mus Art, Kansas City; Princeton Univ; Print Research Found, New York; Georgia Mus Art, Athens; Kirkland Mus Art, Denver.
Exhibitions Housing & Urban Develop Nat Community Art Competition; Joslyn Mus Biennial, Omaha, 72 & 78; Nat Center Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 73-75; Solo exhibs, Univ Missouri, 78, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 2002 & Georgia Mus Art, Univ Georgia, 2004; Smithsonian-Traveling Print, 79-80; West Surrey Coll, Eng, 80; Albrecht Kemper Museum, 93; Nat Soc Mural Painters Centennial, New York Art Students League, 95; Ind State Univ, 97.
Bibliography Nat Community Art Prog, United States Govt Printing Off (Department of Housing & Urban Development), 73; Under the Influence, Students of Thomas Hart Benton (catalogue), Albrecht Kemper Museum, 93; From Roots to Soaring Visions (catalogue), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 2001; Eric J Bransby (author), Figurative Connections, selected works (catalogue), Georgia State Mus Art, 2003.
Publications The Buon Fresco Process (video), Univ Missouri Video Network; Art-Do It, (A handbook for artists), Kendall/Hunt Publ.
Honors and Awards Edwin Austen Abbey Found, Fellow (mural painting), 52; Kansas City Association Trusts & Founds, 70; Veatch Award, Distinguished Res, Univ of Missouri, 77; Weldon Springs Grant, Univ Missouri, 80; Lifetime Achievement Award, President Benezet, Colorado Coll, 99; Pollock-Krasner Award, 2001-2002 & 2006-2007.
Memberships Nat Soc Mural Painters; and others.
Research Area Design analysis of Piero della Francesca's mural cycle in the Church of San Francesco at Arezzo, Italy; development of lightweight portable fresco panels; design analysis of a Byzantine mosaic mural cycle in the Kariye d'Jami church in Istanbul, Turkey.
Areas of Interest Renaissance & Mexico mural fresco techniques.
Dealers Bransby Fine Arts 9080 Highway 115 Colorado Springs CO 80926.
Address 9080 Highway 115 Colorado Springs CO 80926
