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Birth
1920 (Lyons, South Dakota)
Death
2012 (Palm Desert, California)
Lived/Active
California/South Dakota
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large scale paintings and prints-montages, teaching
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Austin Farland Kilian was born on September 19, 1920 to Mabel A. and Ward Van Kilian, on his grandfather’s farm near Crooks, SD. While still a toddler, he moved with his parents to Vilas, SD. He attended grammer school and two years of high school in Vilas and graduated from high school in Howard, SD.
Austin displayed an early interest in art. As a young boy, he formed highly realistic sculptures of famous humans and of small animals, from modeling clay. He built a wide range of wooden to (showing 500 of 3923 characters). |
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