Sydney Butchkes (1920–2015), was an American visual artist and designer. He worked as a painter, sculptor, art director, illustrator, and graphic designer. Butchkes was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1985.

Biography

Sydney Butchkes was born on October 13, 1920 in

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, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. However some sources state he was born in 1922. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati), the

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, and

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in New York City. During

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, he served in the

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. In the early 1960's he moved to Sagaponack in

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. Butchkes died at home on August 10, 2015 in Sagaponack. He has artwork is in museum collections, including the

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, Sheldon Museum of Art, and The Newark Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

* 1949, "The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club", group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York * 1978, "200 Years of Fabrics: Personal Collection of Jack Lenor Larsen", group exhibition, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York * 1978, "Sydney Butchkes, Abstract paintlogs", solo exhibition, Alonzo, New York City, New York * 1981, "Days Of Wine And Nudes", group exhibition, Peter S. Loonam Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York * 1984, "Some Major Artists of the Hamptons: Then and Now", group exhibition, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York * 2006, "Out of the Earth", group exhibition, Celadon Gallery, Water Mill, New York

References

1920 births 2015 deaths American art directors American illustrators 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters American male painters Painters from Kentucky American sculptors Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni Art Students League of New York alumni People from Covington, Kentucky People from Sagaponack, New York The New School alumni United States Army personnel of World War II {{US-illustrator-stub