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| Ray Prohaska´s Resume |
| b. 1901 - d. 1981 |
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Was born in Muo, Yugoslavia in Montenegro on the Adriatic Coast, February 5, 1901. He was a Painter, illustrator, graphic artist, and photographer. Emigrated to US in 1908. His name was changed from Gratia Josef Prohaska to Raymond Joseph Prohaska at the suggestion of a school teacher. He became an American citizen.
Was President of the Society of Illustrators, NYC, 1959-61. |
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| Studied: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Ca. |
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Worked: As an art director in Chicago and New York for several years
before becoming a successful illustrator for major magazines including, Delineator, American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, McCalls, Colliers, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and The Saturday Evening Post. |
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| Author: A Basic Course in Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972. |
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Academic Positions: Artist-in-residence: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. 1963-69. Artist-in-residence: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
1969-74. |
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| Awards: |
- Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibitions-
- 1st in semi-abstract group 1946
- 1st prize painting, 1950
- 1st prize watercolor 1951
- 3rd prize oil 1952
- Honorable Mention 1961,1966 and 1967
- One-man show award, 1963
- Hallmark Art Award 1949
- Audubon Artists Anonymous award 1954
- Audubon Artists Minnie R. Stern Memorial Medal 1956
- National Society of Painters in Casein Joseph Meyer Prize 1956
- M. Grumbacher 1st Prize 1958
- New York City Art Center Honorable Mention 1958
- Casein Painters Honorable Mention 1962
- John Marin Memorial Award, Watercolor Springfield Art Museum, Mo. 1962
- Society of Illustrators Gold Medal 1963
- Medal 1963, The American Academy of Arts and Letters Childe Hassam Fund
- Elected to Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
1972
Purchase Award 1972
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Collections:
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- Butler Art Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
- Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
- Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois
- Georgia Museum of Fine Art, Athens, GA
- Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
- University of Maine, Orono, ME
- Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
- International Telephone and Telegraph Company New York City
- Integrated Design Corporation, Beverly Hills, CA
- U.S. Air Force Historical Society Collection
- Permanent Collection Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
- Sanford Lowe Collection
- New Britian Museum of Art, New Britian, CT
- Permanent Collection of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
- Theodore Lyman Wright Art Center, Beloit College, Beloit, WI and many personal collections in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
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| Exhibited: |
- Art Directors Clubs of, NYC, St.Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland
- Society of Illustrators, NYC
- Audobon Artists
- Butler Art Institute
- National Academy of Design
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Pennsylvania Academy
- Elaine Benson
- Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
- Southampton College
- University of Virginia
- Randolph-Macon College
- Hollins College
- Springfield Art Museum
- Wildenstein Gallery
- Nordness Gallery
- Chase Gallery
- Contemporaries Gallery
- Washington and Lee University
- Guild Hall of East Hampton
- National Society of Casein Painters
- Virginia Museum for Biennial 1965-69
- American Drawing Biennial, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences 1969
- North Carolina Museum of Art Annual, 1971-73
- Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton, NY one-man show 1972, and group shows 1973 and 1974
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, N.Y. 1972
- Society of Illustrators, NYC, retrospective of artist’s life’s work, 1979
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