Colorado Landscape (1942), Section of Painting and Sculpture mural painted for the Rifle, Colorado, post office by George Vander Sluis
Farm Scene (1942), Vander Sluis mural in the post office of Riverton, Wyoming

George Vander Sluis (1915–1984) was an American artist.

Personal life

Sluis was born December 18, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] He was married and had three children with his wife, Hildegarde Bristol Vander Sluis, who survived to 2009.[2]

Work

Vander Sluis designed two 1971 United States Air Mail stamps.[3]

Serving in the United States Army in World War II, Vander Sluis was one of the 1,100 members of the Ghost Army, a secret tactical deception unit that was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2022. After the war he was a member of the art faculty at Syracuse University for 35 years.[4] Just before his death, Vander Sluis painted a mural on the front of the Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse.[5] He painted a New Deal program mural in the U.S. Post Office at Rifle, Colorado, in 1942, which is described in the listing of the building in the National Register of Historic Places.[6][7] He also designed stamps for the United States Postal Service.[8]

The Akron Art Museum holds a Sluis work titled Decayed Glory.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Information Concerning the Mural above the Postmaster's Door, U.S. Post Office, Rifle, Colorado". Retrieved July 30, 2018
  2. ↑ "Hildegarde Bristol Vander Sluis obituary".
  3. ↑ Lidman, David (May 2, 1971). "Stamps: New-Rate Designs". The New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
  4. ↑ "George Vander Sluis". Ghost Army Legacy Project. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  5. ↑ Phillips, Richard L.; Wright, Donald G. (July 5, 2005). Hendricks Chapel: Seventy-five Years of Service to Syracuse University. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-8156-0827-1. OCLC 58729694.
  6. ↑ "Homage to the Barn" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "George Vander Sluis". David Cook Galleries.
  8. ↑ "Sale 61: The Fall Sale, Lot 1423 E, Airmail, 1971, 9¢ & 11¢ Airmail Issue – Designer George Vander Sluis Portfolio". Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions, Inc. October 20–23, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  9. ↑ "title". Archived from the original on July 31, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.


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