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JOHN S. DE MARTELLY
Information taken from Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
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BiographyJohn S. D. Martelly is one of the vigorous younger artists who are coming out of the Middle West. A "discovery" of Thomas Benton's, De Martelly has in the past four or five years taken the highest awards in American art for his lithographs. Until recently, he headed the Graphic Arts Department of the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, dividing his time between that city and his farm in New Hampshire. He received his art training at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and on scholarship grants which took him to the Belle Arte in Florence, Italy; and the Royal College of Arts in London. Coming back to America in 1930, with the plaudits of London, Paris, and Turin art circles, De Martelly was immediately chosen to teach at Kansas City, soon won highest award for the best painting by a Midwestern artist and selection for the Fifty Prints of the Year. His paintings and lithographs are now invitedto all important national art shows.
Information taken from Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.