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Ad Code: 4
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1939
Photo provided by Edward Bentley
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Nemea, Corinth, Greece on August 10, 1888, Panos Booziotes was
brought to America by a benefactor to join several other family members
already here; several brothers who lived near the Chicago area and an
uncle in Grand Rapids, Michigan who ran a dry cleaning establishment.
Booziotes initually studied at Wesleyan College in Bloomington,
Illinois. Deciding on an artistic career, he continued his artistic
training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied from 1917 to 1922. He
eventually settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lived with his
relatives’ family while working in a local furniture factory painting
floral designs on chairs. He was also to become well known for
his landscapes and portraits in addition to the popular appeal of his
pencil sketches of nudes.
In the late 1930’s the artist was invited to join the Orlando Pottery
Company in Orlando, Florida where he was one of six artists on staff
that included Joseph Nash and Andrew DeVries who were also graduates of
the Art Institute of Chicago. Meanwhile, Booziotes maintained a
studio in Miami while residing in Coconut Grove.
His obituary, published in the Miami Daily News, December 16,
1950, comments: “Mr. Booziotes, a resident since 1938, had
exhibited prize winning pictures in the Miami Beach gallery and Miami
Woman’s club and was to have been awarded a Blue Dome fellowship.
Greek-born, he was a naturalized American citizen and a member of
Ahepa.”
After a very short illness, he died in a Coral Gables hospital on
December 16, 1950, and was buried at Miami Memorial Park in Miami,
Florida. In a sad commentary on America, while his family and friends
attended his funeral, the artists’ studio was looted. While his
artwork is known to be extremely beautiful in it’s coloring, it is also
extremely rare.
Submitted September 2006 by Edward Bentley, art collector and researcher of Lansing, Michigan.
Biographical sources include the artist’s death certificate, obituary
and conversations with a family relative, Mrs. Theodore of Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
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