biography of Lowell Leroy Tony BALCOM (1887-1938)

Birth place: Kansas City, MO

Addresses: Westport, CT

Profession: Painter, illustrator, etcher

Studied: with J.D. Patrick; Kansas City AI, with Charles Wilimovsky

Member: AG; Silvermine Guild, CT

Work: Kansas City Pub. Lib.

Comments: Illus., national magazines and advertising campaigns. Positions: artist, Kansas City Star newspaper; army portraitist, WWI. He went to the Virgin Islands after the war, where he painted in watercolor and oil, also experimenting with linoleum cuts. He later traveled to the Orient and the Mediterranean, working on illustrations for the U.S. Shipping Board.