biografia di Zona Lorraine WHEELER (1913-?)

Birth place: Linsborg, KS

Addresses: Wichita 8, KS

Profession: Painter, designer, illustrator, educator, engraver, lithographer

Studied: Bethany College (B.F.A.), with Birger Sandzen; Am. Acad. Art, Chicago; Wichita AA Sch.

Exhibited: CGA, 1934; Phila. Pr. Club, 1935; Kansas City AI, 1935, 1938, 1939; Rocky Mountain PM, 1935; Joslyn Mem., 1936-39; Wichita AG, 1937-46; Wichita 20th Century Club, 1937-46; Kansas Fair, 1938-39 (prize), 1942; Topeka AG, 1939-41; Oklahoma AC, 1940; SFMA, 1946; Kansas Fed. Art Traveling Exhib.; San Francisco AA; Corpus Christi Caller-Times; Wash. WCC; Denver Art Mus.; Springfield (MO) Mus. Art; Joslyn Art Mus.; Assoc. Am. Artists, NY; Wichita AA (solo); Wustum Mus. Art (solo); Rutgers Univ. (solo); and in England. Awards: prizes, Prairie WCC, 1946, 1950; Wichita Women Artists, 1936; Naftziger award, 1947; Printing Indus. Am.; Direct Mail Adv.

Member: Wichita Art Gld.; Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women; Wichita AA; NSMP; Altrusa Int.; Int. Inst. Arts & Letters (fellow); Prairie WCC.

Work: Wichita AA; Wichita Mun. Mus.; Bethany Col.; Kansas State Col.; Women's Fed. Clubs Kansas; Altarpiece, U.S. Veterans Hospital, Wichita; mural-dec., Hotel Lassen, Wichita; Woodcut Soc., Kansas City.

Comments: Position: advertising designer & illustrator McCormick Armstrong Co., Wichita, KS, 1943-. Contributor of layouts & illus. to Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, New Yorker, Fortune, Direct Mail Advertising.

Sources: WW59; WW47.