Mel Strawn

Born Aug 5, 1929
Boise, Idaho, USA
Painter & printmaker - and teacher (Prof Emeritus, University of Denver)

I am a conglomerate artist - with study in Japan especially calligraphy. But the Western tradition is essentially my home base - Picasso, Goya, Klee, Diebenkorn (with whom I studied)...

BFA and MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts 1956. Post grad study CCAC and Japan on a Ford Foundation grant, 1962. Exhibited since 1950. Represented in Denver, CO by Sandra Phillips Gallery. Retrospective - Denver Public Library Sept. 2006,