biografía de Joseph FEHER (1908-1987)

Lugar de nacimiento: Miskolcz, Hungary

Lugar de defunción: Honolulu, HI

Direcciones: Honolulu, HI

Profesión: Curator, designer, painter, medalist

Estudios: Royal Hungarian Acad Fine Arts, Budapest, Acad Bella Arti, Firenze, Italy; Art Inst Chicago, Ill.

Exposiciones: Int Watercolor Exhib, AIC, 1929, 1944; invitational solo show, Univ Ill, Urbana, 1945; Hawaii Painters & Sculptors, 1948, The Navy in Micronesia, 1951 & invitational three-man show, 1968, Honolulu Acad Arts; Downtown Gallery Ltd, Honolulu, 1970s. Awards: Distinctive merit award, 20th Ann New York Art Dirs Show, 1941; six medal awards, Chicago Art Dirs Ann, 1942-1948; award cert, Soc Typographic Arts, Chicago, 1946.

Obra: Abbott Labs, Chicago; Nemes Collection, Budapest; Honolulu Acad Arts, Hawaii; United Air Lines Collection, Chicago; Ely Lilly Collection, Indianapolis, Ind. Commissions: Mural, Across the US, United Air Lines, 1946; watercolor drawings, The Navy in Micronesia-Documentation, US Navy, 1950-51, Hawaii Statehood commemorative postage stamp, US Govt, 1959.

Comentarios: Preferred Medium: oils. Positions: Artist-historian, Bishop Mus, Honolulu, 1955-69; designer publ, Honolulu Acad Arts, 1947-70s, dir art school, 1962-70s, cur prints & drawings, 1966. Teaching: Instr graphic design, Inst Design, Chicago, 1945-46; instr painting, drawing & design, Honolulu Acad Arts. Publications: Auth, Tale Bearing Winds (portfolio), Bishop Mus, 1958; illusr, The Voyage of the Flying Bird, Dodd, 1965; illusr, Claus Spreckels, Univ Hawaii Press, 1967; auth, Hawaii; a Pictorial History, Bishop Mus, 1969.

Fuentes: WW73; add'l info. courtesy D. Wayne Johnson, Litchfield, CT