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Stanley Hess
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Stanley Hess

American, 1923-2019
Birth PlaceWeatherford, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Place ActiveTulsa, Oklahoma, United States, North America
BiographyMural and symbolist easel painting, carving and teaching. Paintings are realism or surrealism sometimes with a double image approach. steming from the regionalist trends of American art. He is also a wood carver and instrument maker.

Stanley Hess was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma on July 8, 1923. As a child, he was educated at the St. Patrick's Indian Mission in Anadarko, Oklahoma. The only white male child among Indian students, Hess remembered enriched learning.

Hess attended the University of Oklahoma and was a contemporary of Oscar Brousse Jacobson Jr. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1948 and Master of Fine Arts in 1950.

Hess was a Graduate Assistant/Special Instructor in Art from 1948 to 1950 at the University of Oklahoma. While at O.U., Hess received instruction from artist and fellow Oklahoman Leonard Good and Mexican artist Emilio Amero.

Hess taught art for many years at Drake University in Iowa. Before that, he taught at the University of Oklahoma.
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