Biografie von Paul DYCK (1917-2006)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Rimrock, AZ, 1976

Profession: Painter, lecturer, illustrator, writer

Studied: Munich Academy with Johann Von Skramlik; Florence, Italy; Prague, Czech.; Rome, Italy; & Paris, France, 1926-1933.

Exhibited: One-man exhibitions, Southwest Mus., Los Angeles, CA, Montana Hist. Soc., Helena, Chicago Mus. Nat. Hist., Phoenix Art Mus. & Arizona State Univ. Mus., plus 43 others, 1954-1972. Awards: Artist commendation, US Navy, 1945; lifetime member, Buffalo Bill Hist. Ctr., Cody, WY, 1971.

Work: Phoenix Art Mus., AZ; Mus. Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Franklin Inst., Philadelphia, PA; plus private collections in USA, Canada & Europe. Commissions: Indians of the Overland Trail (painting), sponsored by public mus., 1956; Flame of Man (painting), F. O. Hess, Franklin Inst., Philadelphia, 1970.

Comments: He grew up in Calgary, near the Blackfoot Reservation. Specialty: Western subjects in egg tempera. Preferred medium: oils. Teaching: lecturer, Am. Indian Culture.

Sources: WW73; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 147-48. Publications: author, Brule, Sioux People of the Rosebud, 1969; contributor, Montana," Magazine of Western History, 1972; contributor, Buffalo Bill Hist. Ctr., 1972. "