Artist Biography - Frederick Shane (1906-1992)
(born 1906 Kansas city, MO, 1990) Studied: Kansas City Art Institute with Randall Davey, 1923-24 (also with Davey in Santa Fe NM, 1924); Broadmoor Art Academy with Davey in Santa Fe NM, 1924); Broadmoor Art Academy with Davey, 1925, 26 (summers); study in Spain and France, 1928-29. (Friends John Sloan, Robert Henri, Thomas Hart Benton, and teachers at CSFAC-Boardman Robinson, Adolf Dehn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi.) Taught: University of Missouri, 1932-33, 34-36, 38-71 (department chairman 1958-67, professor emeritus of Fine Art 1971-present), Kansas State Teacher's College (Emporia, KS), 1936 (summer). Murals: Eldon, MO post office, 1941. Commission: Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney Department Store, St. Louis, MO, 1947. Artist/correspondent for United States Army Medical Corps, 1944. Exhibitions: New York's World Fair, 1939-40, 64-65; Associated American Artists (NYC), 1943 (one-man); Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Museum of Art and Archaeology and State Historical Society of Missouri (Columbia), 1982 (retrospective), many others. Work located in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; City Art Museum, St. Louis; Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia (MO); IBM Corporate Collection; private collections, and others.
