biography of Mark Anderson SPRAGUE (1920)

Birth place: Champaign, IL

Addresses: Champaign, IL

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: Univ. Illinois (B.F.A., 1946; M.F.A., 1949).

Exhibited: AFA traveling exh., 1949; AIC ann., 1951; Western Art Ann., Denver, CO, 1951-52; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1951, 1953; NAD ann., 1958-62.

Work: Illinois State Univ. Mus., Bloomington. Commissions: painting for "Great Ideas of Western Man," Container Corp. Am., Chicago

Comments: Preferred media: oils, polymers, collage. Teaching: Univ. Illinois, Champaign, 1946-70s.