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George Vander Sluis

George J. Vander Sluis (1915 - 1984) was active/lived in New York, Ohio.  George Vander Sluis is known for Mod figure-non ob images, posters.

George Vander Sluis was a painter in acrylics of figure, portrait and landscape, a muralist, and an art educator, who spent much of his career in Syracuse, New York. There he was a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Syracuse University beginning 1947. Between 1940 and 1942, and 1945 to 1947, he was a teacher at the Colorado Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs.

He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Colorado Fine Arts Center and from 1951 to 1952, had a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy. Other recognition included receiving a Ford Foundation grant and being named Outstanding Educator of America in 1975.

George Vander Sluis was a muralist for the WPA in the 1930s. Murals from that period and subsequent commissions are on barns in Central New York State, in the post offices of Rifle, Colorado and Riverton Wyoming and the Hotel Syracuse in New York.

EXHIBITIONS:
Kansas City Art Institute, 1942 (prize); Denver Art Museum, 1942 (prize); Arists West of t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2094 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

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