George Vander Sluis
American, 1915 - 1984
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George Vander Sluis was a painter in acrylics of figure, portrait and landscape, a muralist, and an art educator, who spent much of his career in Syracuse, New York. There he was a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Syracuse University beginning 1947. Between 1940 and 1942, and 1945 to 1947, he was a teacher at the Colorado Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs.
He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Colorado Fine Arts Center and from 1951 to 1952, had a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy. Other recognition included receiving a Ford Foundation grant and being named Outstanding Educator of America in 1975.
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George Vander Sluis (1915–1984) was an American artist.
The Akron Art Museum holds a Sluis work titled "Decayed Glory".[1]
Sluis was born December 18, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio.[2] He was married and had three children with his wife, Hildegarde Bristol Vander Sluis, who survived to 2009.[3]
He painted a New Deal program mural in the U.S. Post Office of Rifle, Colorado in 1942, which is included in the listing of the building in the National Register of Historic Places.[4][5]
