biografía de Frank Weathers LONG (1906-1999)

Lugar de nacimiento: Knoxville, TN

Direcciones: Berea, KY (1947); Gallup, NM (1959)

Profesión: Painter, engraver, craftsperson, lecturer, sculptor

Estudios: AIC; New Mexico State Teachers College; PAFA; Acad. Julian, Paris.

Exposiciones: WFNY 1939; GGE, 1939; AFA traveling exh.; IBM traveling exh. to S. America; Berea College, 1938-40 (solos); Ashland (KY) AA, 1939 (solo); Speed Mem. Mus., 1940 (solo).

Asociaciones: So. Highlanders Handicraft Gld.

Obra: IBM Coll.; Berea College; murals: Univ. Kentucky; Davidson (NC) College; USPO, Berea, Morehead & Louisville, KY; Drumright, OK; Crawfordsville, IN; Hagerstown, MD.

Comentarios: WPA muralist. Position: supervisor, arts & crafts program, for Indian Arts & Crafts Bd., U.S. Dept. of Interior, Juneau, Alaska, 1951-57; same position, covering the Southwest, U.S.A. Auth./illustr.: Herakles; The Twelve Labors, 1931. Illustr.: Wood Engravings and Text.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; autobiography: Confessions of a Depression Muralist (Univ. Missouri Press, 1997)