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January 8, 1915
Atkinson, Nebraska
- EDUCATION
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Lincoln, NebraskaKansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MissouriMinneapolis School of Art
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Loren Sturdevant Mills was born on January 8, 1915. He studied art at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Nebraska.
He was an assistant instructor of sculpture and ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1938 to 1940.
Later in the 1940s, Mills moved to Nebraska. There he completed medical displays for the College of Dentistry, the Division of Cancer Foundation, at the University of Nebraska.
Note
Mills may have gone by the nickname “Sturdy”.
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“Loren Sturdevant Mills in the U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947," Ancestry, accessed September 19, 2022.
“Mills, Loren Sturdevant (Sturdy),” in Dorothy B. Gilbert, ed., Who’s Who in American Art (Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1947), 321.
“Art and Artists," The Kansas City Star, October 25, 1940, 35.
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askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
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Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Bibliography
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“Loren Sturdevant Mills in the U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947," Ancestry, accessed September 19, 2022.
“Mills, Loren Sturdevant (Sturdy),” in Dorothy B. Gilbert, ed., Who’s Who in American Art (Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1947), 321.
“Art and Artists," The Kansas City Star, October 25, 1940, 35.
Core Reference Sources
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on September 22, 2022
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