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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born Troy, Oct. 20, 1904; died Topeka, Mar. 1984. Painter, spec. portraits & landscapes. Sculptor. Educated in Horton, Kansas City, Holton, Salina, and Topeka. Studied at Washburn College, Topeka with V. Helen Anderson and John Canaday. Student at the Kansas City Art Institute. Worked as an actuarial clerk for Liberty Life Insurance in Topeka in the 1920s and started Gorbutt Advertising Company in 1939 which operated until 1961. By 1971 was doing colorful abstract constructions with bent tube lights. | Source:
AWARDS:
Third prize, Midwestern Artists Exhibition, 1937.
COLLECTIONS:
Topeka Public Library
MEMBERSHIPS:
Topeka Art Guild.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1, 2, 3, 4; Topeka Cap & Topeka J (Topeka Capital, Topeka J (aka Topeka J) newspapers—usually reports of the Kansas Artists Exhibition 1st= Topeka Cap Nov. 11, 1925 9th= Topeka J Nov. 11, 1933 2nd= Topeka Cap Nov. 10, 1926 10th= Topeka J Nov. 10, 1934 3rd= Topeka J Nov. 19, 1927 11th= Topeka J Jan. 7, 1936 4th= Topeka J Nov. 3, 1928 12th= Topeka J Nov. 11 & 14, 1936 5th= Topeka J Nov. 2, 1929 14th= Topeka J Jan. 22, 1938 6th= Topeka J Oct. 18 & Nov. 1, 1930 15th= Topeka J Mar. 10, 1939 7th= Topeka J Oct. 24, 1931 16th= Topeka J Feb. 2 & 10, 1940 8th= Topeka J Oct. 22, 1932 17th= Topeka J Mar. 8 & 17, 1941) (Nov. 10, 1934); Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1937; AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Dec. 16, 2005; Family Search. Version 2.5.0. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2002. www.FamilySearch.org accessed July 15, 2006; Sallee, Jeanne Gorbutt. John died Gorbutt, Jr.: A Study Of a Kansas Artist, 1931 until 1971. (M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University, 1971); TPL | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Troy, Kansas, he was a painter and sculptor who lived in Topeka and exhibited at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1937. He was a student of V. Helen Anderson, and his painting, "Portrait of Justice E.R. Sloan" is owned by the state of Kansas. He was a member of the Topeka Art Guild.
He died in March of 1984, in Topeka, Kansas.
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Exhibition Record (Museums, Institutions and Awards):
7th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition, 1931; 8th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition (Topeka: Mulvane Art Museum, 1925-1941), 1932; 9th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition, 1933; 10th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition (Topeka: Mulvane Art Museum, 1925-1941), 1934; one-man show at Washburn, 1935; 12th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition (Topeka: Mulvane Art Museum, 1925-1941), 1936; Midwestern Artists Exhibition, 1937; 16th Annual Kansas Artists Exhibition (Topeka: Mulvane Art Museum, 1925-1941), 1940; Mulvane Art Museum, 1971. | |
Memberships:
Topeka Art Guild. |
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