biografía de Thomas John HARTER (1905-1981)

Lugar de nacimiento: Naperville, IL

Lugar de defunción: Phoenix, AZ

Direcciones: Los Angeles, 1920; Tempe, AZ

Profesión: Educator, painter, designer, illustrator

Estudios: Calif. Art Inst., Los Angeles, scholarship, 1925; Grand Central School Art, NYC, 1932-34, with Harvey Dunn; ASL; Arizona State Univ. (B.A., 1940); Univ. Oregon (M.F.A., 1942); Colorado Springs FAC, summer 1944.

Exposiciones: Eighth Biennial Exhib. Watercolors, American & Foreign Artists, Brooklyn Mus., 1935; AWCS, NYC, 1937 & 1938; Arizona P&S Ann., Phoenix, 1938; five exhibs., Calif Nat. WCS, 1945-62; Mus. New Mexico, Santa Fe; Southwest Artists, 1941-46; Phoenix Art Mus., 1964 (solo); Matthews Center, Arizona State Univ., 1972 (solo retrospective). Awards: first prize for oil, 1959, first prize for watercolor, 1961 & first prize for oil, 1962, Arizona State Fair.

Asociaciones: Calif. WCS; Arizona Educ. Assn.; Nat. Educ. Assn.; Am. Assn. Univ. Prof.

Obra: 12 portraits of notables, Ariz. State Univ. Portrait Collection, Tempe; Scottsdale Fine Arts Commission, Arizona; Glendale Community College Fine Arts Collection, AZ; Univ. of Oregon

Comentarios: Positions: des., Western Litho., Los Angeles, 1922-25; prom. artist, Los Angeles Examiner, 1925-29; art dir., 1929-30; des., Niagara Lithographic Co., New York, 1930-37. Teaching: Arizona State Univ., 1937-46. Illustrator: Game in the Desert," 1939, "Hunting in the Southwest," 1946; "Arizona: The History of a Frontier State", 1950; also history articles in Arizona Highways.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 241. "