Occupation: Painter, Sculptor Media: All; Clay. Born Chicago, Ill, Mar 4, 1930.
Education Art Institute of Chicago, with John Rogers Cox & Paul Wiegarht, BA, 53. Univ Ill, Urbana-Champaign, MA, 59.
Teaching Positions Instr art, Public Schs, Gary, Ind, 54-57 & Univ High Sch, Univ Ill, 57-59; professor art, Sch Art & Design, Univ Ill, Champaign, 59-85; vis professor art, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, 68-69.
Commissioned Works Paintings & sculpture, Bishop's Chapel, St Mary's Cathedral Rectory, Peoria, Ill, 91; stained glass windows & sculpture, St Philomena's Church, Monticello, Ill, 92 & 94; mural, St Joseph's Cathedral, Missouri, 95; mural, St Matthew Catholic Church, Champaign, Ill, 97; sculpture & painting, High Sch St Thomas More, Champaign, Ill, 2000.
Public Works Ill State Mus, Springfield; Butler Mus America Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Ill; Union League Club, Chicago; Lakeview Center Arts & Sci, Peoria, Ill.
Exhibitions Mid-Yr Ann, Butler Mus America Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 62-63 & 65; Pennsylvania Acad Fine Art (traveling), 63, Europe, 64; Realism Revisited, Flint Art Inst, Michigan, 66; 5th Biennial Relig Art, Cranbrook Academy, Detroit, 66; Ill Arts Coun Traveling Exhib, 67; Retrospective, Lakeview Center Arts & Sci, Peoria, Ill, 77; Univ Ill Painting Fac, Univ Tokyo & Nat Hist Mus Taipei, 81; Blossoms, The Art of Flowers, Houston Mus Natural Sci, 2007; and others.
Honors and Awards Second Purchase Prize, Fourth Union League Exhib, Chicago, 61; Fourth Purchase Prize Oils, Mid-Yr Ann, Butler Mus America Art, 63; Second Prize Sculpture, Annual Exhibition, Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, 63.
Memberships Nat Soc Arts & Lett (honorary member).
Dealers Green Street Studio 24 E Green St Champaign IL 61820.
