Frederic mizen biography
Frederic mizen biography
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Frederic Mizen 1888–1964
Frederic Kimball Mizen was born in Chicago and showed an aptitude for art at an early age. In 1904, as a teenager, he enrolled at the J. Francis Smith Academy in Chicago, where instructor Walter Ufer encouraged him to depict Southwestern subjects, then coming into great popularity.
Mizen found work as a catalogue illustrator for Sears Roebuck and Company and attended evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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He soon became a highly successful illustrator, creating art for popular magazine covers, billboards, and promotional materials and counting the Santa Fe Railroad and Coca-Cola among his major patrons.
Mizen made numerous trips to the Southwest and became well known for his paintings of Native Americans and the landscapes of Arizona and New Mexico.
He also established a thriving practice of portrait painting and was favored for official corporate portraits. An educator as well as a fine and commercial artist, Mizen opened his own art school, the