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Charles Kinghan

Charles Ross Kinghan (1895 - 1984) was active/lived in Illinois, New York.  Charles Kinghan is known for Portrait and landscape painting, illustration.

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Charles Ross Kinghan was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign Works.  He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1916, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Audubon School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.  He was a pupil of Carl Scheffler, J. Wellington Reynolds, and H.A. Oberteuffer.

He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was an illustrator for McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many other
magazines. including American Artist magazine. 

He was author and illustrator of Rendering Techniques for Commercial Art and Advertising (1956) and of Ted Kautzky—Master of Pencil and Watercolor (1959).  Head of the art department at BBDO Advertising Agency in New Rochelle, NY in 1962.  One of the founders of the Huguenot School of Art i

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936-1962 , 1970, 1976; AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Dec. 29, 2007; www.FamilySearch.org,
accessed Dec. 29, 2007; Pamphlet file at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library in Washington, DC.; Wichita Art Museum’s Library Artists’ Files.; Wichita Beacon (Oct. 20, 1978).



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