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Edward Laning

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Edward Laning (1906 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, Missouri, Illinois.  Edward Laning is known for Genre, social-surreal view, mural paintings.

Edward Laning

Edward Laning, whose dream as a young man was to travel across the country in his car, solicit various communities to paint murals in the local courthouses, and execute mural decoration for the cost of the materials and room and board, became an outstanding mural painter with a special talent for figure painting.  Born in Petersburg, Illinois in 1906, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1923-24) then at the University of Chicago (1925-27).  He received further art instruction for the following three years at the Art Students League in New York under Max Weber, John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth Hayes Miller.  Laning owes much of his style to the latter. Laning would have been exposed to the classical monumentality of Renaissance and Baroque mural painting in Rome, where he was in 1929 and 1931.   He won travel grants (Guggenheim and Fulbright), exhibited widely, and took part in WPA mural pro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3351 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  47
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edward Laning
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2002 Bryant, Kathy; Cathy Byrd Yes
American Art Review Selections/Wichita Art Museum April 1998 Ross, Novelene Yes
Art & Antiques The Federal Art Project June 1996 Wallis, Stephen Yes
47 Book References for Edward Laning
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1993 Todd, Ellen Wiley The "New Woman" Revised Painting and Gender Politics on 14th Street 414 Yes
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Beckham, Sue Bidwell Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture/A Gentle Reconstruction 338 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Gambone, Robert L Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940 286 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1983 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1982 Wooden, Howard E Edward Laning American Realist 1906-1981
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1981 Wooden, Howard E. (Text) The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1980 Doezema, Marianne American Realism and the Industrial Age
(Exhibition catalog)		 147 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1978 Berman, Greta Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project 300 No
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 No
1976 Heller, Nancy/Julia Williams The Regionalists 190 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Rosenberg, Harold Art on the Edge Creators and Situations 303 No
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1972 O'Connor, Francis V The New Deal Art Projects An Anthology of Memoirs 339 No
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1958 Goodrich, Lloyd Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1945 Crane, Aimee Portrait of America 204 Yes
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Boswell, Peyton Jr Modern American Painting 207 Yes
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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