biography of Tran MAWICKE (1911-1988)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Bronxville, NY

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: AIC, with Louis Ritman; AAA, Chicago; AFA, Chicago.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1944; AWCS, 1948 & 1969-72; Audubon Artists; Soc. Illus., Am. WC Traveling Exhib., 1970; Cross Roads of Sport, NYC & Blair Gal., Sante Fe, NM, 1970s.

Member: AWCS (dir., 1970 & 1972); life mem., SI (pres., 1960-61); Fairfield Watercolor Group; life mem. Joint Ethics Comn. (chmn., 1955-60).

Work: USAF Coll., Wash., DC; Williamsburg Corp., Va.; Schenectady Mus., NY; Garrott Coll., Los Angeles, Calif. Commissions: portraits, Gen. Elec. Corp. Knolls Lab., 1948 & NY Nat. Guard, Schenectady, 1953.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors. Publications: illusr., South America Illustrated, G &D, 1960; illusr., Little Britches, Norton, 1962; co-auth., Famous Horses, World Publ., 1972.

Sources: WW73; WW47; S. Meyer, "Fairfield Watercolor Group," Am. Artist (July, 1972)