biografía de Russell Vernon HUNTER (1900-1955)

Lugar de nacimiento: Hallsville, IL

Lugar de defunción: Roswell, NM

Direcciones: Roswell, NM

Profesión: Museum director, commerical artist, painter, teacher, writer

Estudios: James Millikan Univ.; Denver Acad. Art; AIC; Otis Art Inst., Los Angeles with S. MacDonald Wright

Exposiciones: Mus. New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1922-45, 1955 (retrospective); P.&S. Southern Calif., 1925-26, 1928, 1934; AIC, 1925, 1937 (as Vernon Hunter); LACMA, 1925-28, 1934; BM, 1927, 1931, 1951; CPLH, 1933; Texas State Fair Exhib., 1933; Dallas Mus. FA, 1933 (solo), 1948 (solo); Denver Art Mus., 1936; Pan-Am. Exp., 1937; WFNY 1939; Corcoran Gal., 1939; Colorado Springs FA Center, 1941-1945, 1951; AFA traveling exh., 1942-43, 1943-45; VMFA, 1946 (prize), 1947 (solo), 1951; Parkersburg (WV) Art Center, 1946 (prize); Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sciences, 1946 (prize); Sun Carnival, El Paso, 1952 (prize); Florida Southern College, 1952 (prize); Denver Art Mus.; Univ. Colorado

Asociaciones: Santa Fe P.&S.

Obra: murals, DeBaca County Court House, Ft. Sumner, NM; Amarillo (TX) Broadcasting Station; Central Baptist Church, Clovis, NM; St. Gregory's Priory, Three Rivers, MI; other work in collection of VMFA; Dallas Mus. FA; Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sciences; Mus. New Mexico.

Comentarios: Teaching: Los Cerrillos schools; State Teacher's College, NM, 1920s; Otis AI, Los Angeles, 1923-27; Roerich Mus., NYC, until 1931; New Mexico State dir., FAP Program, 1935-42; assoc. & regional dir., Bldg. Services, USO, 1943-48; administrative dir., Dallas Mus. FA, 1948-52; dir., Roswell Mus., Roswell, NM, 1952-. He sometimes signed his work Vernon Hunter. Author: Spanish Colonial Art Section: A Guide to the Colorful State; supv. pub. of Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico. Contributor to art magazines. Also appears as Vernon Hunter.

Fuentes: WW53; WW47; P&H Samuels, 242; Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism, 172-73 (w/repro.)