Ron Kowalke
Illustration — Galactic Sculpture #2 by Ron Kowalke, 1981, Honolulu Museum of Art Ron Leory Kowalke (born 1936, died February 26, 2021) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art educator born in Chicago. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, but earned his BA from Rockford University in 1959. He received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1960.
Also recorded as Ronald Leroy Kowalke · Kowalke, Ronald Leroy
Ron Kowalke
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- 1936 · Chicago.
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- United States
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- artist · printmaker · sculptor
- Education
- Rockford University
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Illustration — Galactic Sculpture #2 by Ron Kowalke, 1981, Honolulu Museum of Art Ron Leory Kowalke (born 1936, died February 26, 2021) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art educator born in Chicago. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, but earned his BA from Rockford University in 1959. He received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1960.
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He taught at Northern Illinois University and the Swain School of Design before joining the faculty of the University of Hawaii. He taught in Hawaii from 1969 until his retirement as a professor emeritus in 2000. His works often explored extreme linear perspective and multiple framings, as in Galactic Sculpture #2. The Auckland Art Gallery, the Boston Public Library, the Fogg Museum, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Hessel Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding work by Ron Kowalke.
Ron Kowalke studied at Rockford University. Employment is recorded with University of Hawaiʻi System. Work by Ron Kowalke is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art and Picker Art Gallery.
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- 1.RONALD LEROY KOWALKE Obituary Honolulu Star-Advertiser. obits.staradvertiser.com.
- 2.Wisnosky, John and Tom Klobe, A Tradition of Excellence, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, 2002, pp. 73-74
- 3.Wisnosky, John and Tom Klobe, A Tradition of Excellence, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, 2002, p. 74
- 4.Bijing Tomorrow Art Gallery
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