University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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PINNACLE ROCKS Harry Anthony De Young is not only an artist, but an exficrienced teacher as well, having taught in several schools including the Academy of Art, Chicago. He is also tfie founder of the De Young Painting camp in the Davis Moun- tains of Texas. He has maintained his private school in San Antonio since 1928. Mr. De Young was born in Chicago, August 5, 1893. He studied at the University of Illinois under the direction of Edward Lake and Fabians Kelly, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, with F. de Forrest Schook, .John W. Norton, and others.

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APrnOACHING STORM Samuel P. Ziegler, teacher, lecturer, etcher, and pair ter, is now director of the Art Depart- ment of Texas Christian Uniiiersity in Fort Worth. He was horn in Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, and began studying art at an early age. Later he studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts where he was awarded the Cresson European Scholarship. After a year ' s study and travel in Europe he returned to the Acad- emy for another year ' s study. After painting and teaching two years in Philadelphia he came to Texas and became a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of T. C. U. Since then he has taught at Texas Women ' s College in Fort Worth and is now head of the Art Department at T. C. U. Ziegler paints vigorously with brilliant colors in brokai strokes, giving a vibration of light and life to his canvases not attained by the ordinary artist. In addition to his painting, he is making a series of lithographs of Fort Worth, its indus- tries and imprmements.