biography of Harold Malette DEAN (1907-1975)

Birth place: Spokane, WA

Death place: San Rafael, CA

Addresses: San Francisco, CA

Profession: Printmaker, muralist, illustrator, painter

Studied: Calif. SchFA , with Ray Boynton (Anne Bremer Scholarship)

Exhibited: San Francisco AA, 1938 (prize for graphics); GGE, 1939; Calif. SchFA; Boericke Prize, 1939; Phila Print Cl, 1939 (prize for blockprint)

Member: San Francisco AA

Work: Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco (frescoe); SFMA; de Young Mus.; NY Pub. Lib.; LOC; Univ. San Francisco Lib.; Coit Tower (mural); USPO, Sebastopol, CA

Comments: Position: T., printmaking, Calif. SchFA; T., Marin Jr. College; illustrator for Grabhorn Press books, San Francisco. WPA printmaker in California, 1930s. Also known as Malette Dean.

Sources: exh. cat., Annex Gal. (Santa Rosa, CA, n.d., c.1988); Hughes, Artists of California, 138; WW40