biography of Daniel S. LUTZ (1906-1978)

Birth place: Decatur, IL

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA , 1947; Santa Barbara, CA, 1973

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Millikin Univ.; AIC (J.N. Raymond European travel fellow & dipl., 1931); Univ. Southern Calif. (B.F.A., 1934); Boris Anisfeld.

Exhibited: Santa Cruz A. Lg., 1931, 1933, 1937 (prizes); Oakland Exh., 1937 (prize); Calif. WC Soc., 1936, 1938, 1942 (prizes); San Diego FA Soc., 1937 (prize); GGE, 1939; Pasadena A Inst.; AIC, 1936-46 (4 times); VMFA, 1940-48 (5 biennials, prizes); PAFA Ann., 1940, 1947, 1949; PAFA, 1945 (Wheelwright prize for watercolors); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1943; NAD, 1941(Clark Prize for oils), 1942; "Am Painting, Watercolor & Drawing" exhibs., MMA, 1942, 1950, 1952; LACMA 1942, 1954 (prizes); Carnegie Inst, 1943 (3rd hon. men. for oil), 1949-50; "Contemporary American Painting," WMAA, 1944-50; Dalzell-Hatfield Gal., Los Angeles, 1970s.

Member: Calif. WC Soc.; AWCS; Phila. WC Cl.; Santa Barbara Art Assoc.; Men. of Art Guild, San Antonio, 1955

Work: San Diego MA; Pasadena AI; Wood Gal., Montpelier, VT; Vanderpoel Gal., Chicago; PMG; LACMA; Phila. MA; Santa Barbara MA; Encyclopedia Britannica Coll. Commissions: portrait, face of Westhampton Col., Richmond, Va., 1955.

Comments: Teaching: Univ. So. Calif., 1932-42; Chouinard Art Inst., 1944-52; Univ. Ga., 1955.

Sources: WW73; WW47. Donald Bear, "Recent Pictures by Dan Lutz," Mag. of Art, Dec., 1943; Arthur Millier, "Dan Lutz, A Painter . . ." Am. Artist, Dec., 1951; Janice Lovoos, "Dan Lutz," Christian Sci. Monitor, 1967; Hughes, Artists in California; Falk, Exh. Record Series.