biography of Raul Jose MINA-MORA (1915-1996)

Birth place: Santa Ana, El Salvador

Addresses: San Francisco, CA; Rockaway Park, NY

Profession: Painter, illustrator, commercial artist

Studied: San Francisco Acad. Advan. Arts; ASL, with Howard Traffton; also with Daniel Gree, Harte, Austria.

Exhibited: Brooklyn Mus., NY, 1971; NAC, 1971; Nat. Soc. Casein Painters; Salmagundi Cl., 1971; Parrish Art Mus., NY, 1971-72; MM, 1977; Brooklyn Mus., 1976; NAD, 1976. Awards: Guldi Award, Parrish Art Mus., 1971; first prize for abstr., Brooklyn Art Mus., 1971; silver medal, NAC, 1971; AAPL, 1975 (first prize)

Member: Salmagundi Cl.; Am. Artist Prof. League; Nat. Soc. Casein & Acrylic Painters; Knickerbocker Artists; Nat. Art League; All. A. Am.; Audubon Painters

Work: South Hampton High Sch. Permanent Coll., NY; Freid Corp.

Comments: Positions: creative dir., Hanna Advert. Co, 1947-48. Publications: illusr. for, Fortune Mag., 1965, Rutledge, 1969, Macmillan, 1969, Cronwell-Colliers, 1969 & Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Teaching: archit. design & visual archit., Rudolp Shapher Sch. Design; instr. design., San Francisco Sch. Design. He began painting fine art in the late 1930s.

Sources: WW73; Hughes, Artists in California, 382, who cites a birth date of 1914.