biography of Irene A. SELONKE (1910-1981)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Leawood, KS

Profession: Painter

Studied: AIC; Kansas City Art Inst.; also with Joseph Fleck, Taos, NM & Olga Dormandi, Paris, France.

Exhibited: Coun. Am. Artists, Lever House, NYC, 1964; Nat. League Am. Pen. Women Biennial State Show, Saint Louis, Mo., 1965; Nat. League Am. Pen. Women Regional State Show, Kansas City, 1965; Greater Kansas City Art Assn. Exhibs., 1966; Nat. League Am. Pen. Women Nat. Exhib., Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1969; Ken Gilbert 83rd & Summerset, Prairie Village, KS, 1970s. Awards: four awards, Nat. League Am. Pen. Women, 1962-69; five awards, Greater Kansas City Art Assn., 1962-68; Pikes Peak Nat. Award, 1972.

Member: Nat League Am Pen Women (state art chmn., 1971-1972).

Work: Ralph Foster Mus., Point Lookout, Mo.; Gill Studios, Olatha, Kans.; Johnson Co. Nat. Bank, Prairie Village, Kans.; Three-Thirty-Three Myer Bldg., Kansas City, Mo.; Golden Ox, Wash., DC. Commissions: Tron furs, Sylvan Tron, Kansas City, 1960; hist. mural & many portraits, Mr. & Mrs. Dave Lorenz, Platt Woods, Mo., 1966.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, oils. Positions: illusr., Mod. Handcraft Mag., Kansas City, 1959-61. Publications: contribr., Workbasket Mag. & Workbench Mag., 1959-61.