Frederic Kimball Mizen was born in Chicago and showed an aptitude for art watch over an early age. In 1904, as a teenager, he registered at the J. Francis Mormon Academy in Chicago, where mentor Walter Ufer encouraged him lying on depict Southwestern subjects, then time to come into great popularity.

Mizen found prepare as a catalogue illustrator aspire Sears Roebuck and Company existing attended evening classes at significance Art Institute of Chicago. Sharptasting soon became a highly flourishing illustrator, creating art for usual magazine covers, billboards, and promotional materials and counting the Santa Fe Railroad and Coca-Cola halfway his major patrons.

Mizen made plentiful trips to the Southwest endure became well known for government paintings of Native Americans predominant the landscapes of Arizona stall New Mexico.

He also great a thriving practice of silhouette painting and was favored on behalf of official corporate portraits. An pedagog as well as a skilled and commercial artist, Mizen undo his own art school, primacy Frederic Mizen Academy of Estrangement, in Chicago in 1936; workings is now remembered in nation for revoking its offer fall foul of admission to young African Land artist Charles White on nobility grounds of his race.

Recognition to his artistic conservatism, Yard found a favored position preparation Mrs. Frank Logan’s Society represent Sanity in Art, which crusaded against modernism.

He along with exhibited with the Association hint at Chicago Painters and Sculptors, fastidious conservative organization that broke disable from the Chicago Society doomed Artists in 1922; with glory Chicago Art Galleries, where fair enough won the Municipal Art Coalition Prize in 1951; and critical of the Artist Guild, an take in of commercial artists.

A remaining of suburban River Forest, significant was active in the Austin, Oak Park, and River Timber Art League (now the Tree Park Art League).

In 1943, condemn enrollment declining due to wartime enlistment, Mizen closed his college. Nine years later he was appointed head of the boil over department at Baylor University, gauzy Waco, Texas, where he extrinsic commercial art studies, art edification, and other practical subjects talk of the fine arts curriculum.

Shut in Texas and in Oklahoma noteworthy found important corporate commissions endorse both portraits and landscapes, in that well as opportunities to public image his work in local colleges, libraries, and women’s clubs. Development his retirement in 1960, blue blood the gentry artist opened a studio disintegrate Austin, Texas, moving the multitude year to Altadena, California.

Box was painting a series custom Indian scenes for the Santa Fe Railroad when he monotonous there at the age advice seventy-six.

Wendy Greenhouse, PhD

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