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| A painter, muralist, graphic artist, illustrator and teacher, John Warren Hunter, known as Warren Hunter, was a Texan who lived in San Antonio, Harper, Helotes and Bandera. He painted landscapes "that reflected his enjoyment of the rural Texas scenes he loved."
Hunter was born in London, Texas and raised in San Antonio. His father published newspapers in small towns in Arizona, New Mexico and southwestern Texas, and John worked with him and sometimes illustrated his father's stories with linoleum block prints. In the 1920s, he began his own publications including the "Harper Herald", which the Texas Press Association in 1925 named the Best Texas Weekly.
In 1934, he moved to Bandera, and made enough money to go to the Art Institute the next year in Chicago. He graduated from there with honors in 1939 and moved to San Antonio and did a mural for the Post Office in nearby Alice, Texas. In the 1970s the mural was saved at the request of Smithsonian personnel when the post office was torn down, and the mural was installed at the National Museum of American Art. In San Antonio, he worked as a commercial artist and also taught life drawing at the Witte Memorial Museum School of Art.
During World War II, Hunter worked for the U.S. Army Map Service, and then worked briefly in New York before returning to San Antonio, where he resumed teaching at the Witte Museum until 1952 and from 1946 to 1961, taught at his own school, the Hunter School of Art. In 1946, he also began teaching at the San Antonio Art Institute and in 1951, became Dean of that school.
As an illustrator, he won many awards and his work appeared in history texts and the "Ford Times".
John Hunter died in 1993 in San Antonio when flood waters swept his car off a road.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists" |
Biography from Fine Arts Of Texas, Inc.:
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John Warren Hunter moved to San Antonio, Texas as a youth and later in the 1920's worked as an illustrator with his father, who owned several small town publications throughout the Southwest. Hunter later started his own publication.
He also worked in oil paintings before moving to Chicago in 1935 to attend the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1939.
Returning to San Antonio 1939, he was selected to execute a mural in the Post Office in Alice, Texas. He along and Russell Vernon Hunter taught art at the San Antonio Art Institute. John Warren Hunter was named Dean of the school in 1951.
He was an active exhibitor in the 1930's through the 1950's. He demonstrated high quality of workmanship throughout his art career.
He died from the raging flood waters in the San Antonio River in 1993.
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