Biografie von Louis Joseph KAEP (1903-1991)
Birth place: Dubuque, IA
Addresses: Chicago, IL; Greenwich, CT
Profession: Painter
Studied: Loras College; AIC; Julian Acad., Paris; Poole; Reynolds; Schook.
Exhibited: Ann. Illinois Artists, Chicago; All Ill. Soc.FA, 1927-31, 1936-37; Illinois Acad. FA, Springfield; International Salon WC, New Westminster, BC; Marshalltown Exh. Iowa Artists; Philadelphia WC Exhibit; 41st Ann. Exhibit by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, AIC; Midwestern Artists Exhibit, Kansas City Art Inst.; Royal Watercolor Soc., London, 1962; "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," MMA, 1966; AWCS 100th Ann., NYC, 1967; 50 AWCS Watercolors, Mus. Aquarelle, Mexico City, 1968; NAD annual, 1972. Awards: Olsen award for "Sampans & Junks, Hong Kong," AWCS, 1962; assoc mem award for "The Old Quarry," All. A. Am., 1969; gold medal for "Fiesta, Toledo, Spain," Hudson Valley AA, 1970.
Member: NA, 1956; Palette and Chisel Acad. FA; AI Graphic Artists; Ill. Acad. FA; All-Ill. SFA; Iowa AC; Chicago Guild Free Lance Artists; AWCS (first vice pres., 1962); Salmagundi Club (bd. dir., 1965); Artists & Writers Assn.; All. A. Am.
Work: Dubuque AA; Loras College, Dubuque; City of Chicago, IL; Kalamazoo Inst. Arts, MI; Soc. New York Hospitals; AAAL. Commissions: with 6th Fleet in Mediterranean, 1960 & with Seabees in South Pacific & Far East, 1961, US Navy.
Comments: Preferred medium: watercolors. Positions: vice pres., Vogue Wright Studios, NYC, 1952-56, pres., 1956-65; pres., Electrographic Corp., New York, 1965-71, vice chairman, 1971-. Teaching: AIC, 1924-26; Chicago Acad. FA, 1936-42. Author: "Fairfield Watercolor Group," Am. Artists Magazine, July, 1972.
Sources: WW73; WW40; Developing Paintings from Sketches" (film), 1971; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 117."