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King Lear
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A printmaker, painter, and teacher who worked in abstract styles,
Ernest Freed was born in Rockville, Indiana, and studied at Indiana
State University, the University of Illinois, and the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship from 1933 to 1934. He also
had a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship. Among his teachers were
Grant Wood, Mauricio Kasansky, and Daniel Garber.
From 1937 to
1939, Freed was an art instructor at Northwest State University, and
from 1939 to 1941, was art supervisor in the Flagstaff Arizona Public
Schools. From 1941 to 1949, he was at Fairmont State College (Fairmont, West Virginia) as a
teacher, and from 1949 to 1954 chaired the art department at Bradley
University in Peoria, Illinois. In 1954 until his retirement, he was head of
Printmaking at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Sources include:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art |
Biography from Annex Galleries:
| Ernest Freed, painter, printmaker, administrator, and teacher, was born
on a farm near Rockville, Indiana. He showed an early propensity
toward art, but received no formal training until he enrolled at
Indiana State Teacher’s College in 1926. The following year,
Freed transferred to the University of Illinois where he earned his
B.S. in Education in 1931 and a B.F.A. in Art in 1933.
He was awarded a scholarship in 1933 to the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts where he studied until 1934. Between 1935 and 1937, he
pursued further studies at the University of Iowa and received his M.A.
in fresco painting. 1936 was a pivotal year for Freed. He
won a Tiffany Fellowship and had his first solo exhibition, which
included work created during his fellowship.
Freed’s early career in education included positions at the University
of Iowa and Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He was Director of Art Education
at Iowa where he met and studied printmaking with Mauricio
Lasansky. At Bradley, as Head of the School of Art, he revamped
the curriculum to include printmaking and established a National Print
Exhibition. In 1954, he began a twenty-year career as Professor of Art
at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. As Head of Printmaking at Otis,
he established another legacy, The National Print Invitational.
He kept a demanding schedule of group exhibitions. His solo
exhibitions were held at the Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, Cranbrook
Museum, Winnipeg Museum, and Illinois, Iowa, Southern California, and
North Carolina University. Repositories of his work include the
Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum, Philadelphia Museum,
Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cranbrook Museum, Library of
Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum,
University of Southern California, and the Bibliothèque Nationale.
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