Morton Traylor

Morton Patrick Traylor (April 6, 1918 – April 28, 1996) was an American fine artist, designer, serigrapher and founder of the Virginia Art Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Morton Traylor was born on April 6, 1918,^{[citation needed ]} in Petersburg, Virginia.^[1] Traylor lived in Los Angeles most of his life. After graduating from Eagle Rock High School, he entered Los Angeles City College, where his formal art training began.^{[citation needed ]}

Around 1960, he moved to White Hall. In the mid-1960s, he established the Virginia Art Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia. The school was in operation for about ten years.^[1]

Traylor married Maxine.^[2] Around 1986, he moved with his wife back west.^[1] Traylor died on April 28, 1996, aged 78, in Roseburg, Oregon.^[2]

Traylor was a painter and serigraph printmaker.^[1] His artwork can be found in museums and private collections around the world including the Georgia Museum of Art and The British Museum.

• National Features Syndicate, New York, New York
• McNaught Syndicate, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Whitman Publishing Co. (Dell Comics) Beverley Hills, California
• Northrop Aviation Co. Commercial Art Dept., Hawthorne, California
• Art Director, "TRYOUT", Big Bear Lake, California
• Owned and Operated Advertising Co., San Bernardino, California
• President of Inter-Mountain Concert Society, California
• Director of Lex Advertising Co., Charlottesville, Virginia
• Owned and Operated Virginia Art & Advertising, Crozet, Virginia
• Founder/Director of Virginia Art Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia

• President of Kappa Tau Sigma, Honorary Art Society (1939)
• LACC Summer Scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute through Latham Contest (1939)
• Annual Scholarship to Chouinard through National competition (1940)
• Graduated from LACC as one of six Honor Students Continuing Scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute (1941)
• First Prize (Drawing) 3rd National Veterans' Exhibition, Long Beach, California (1949)
• First Prize (Drawing) 5th Annual, Alley Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia (1964)
• First Prize (Print) Contemporary Southern Art Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia (1964)
• Hon. Mention, Southern Art Festival, Atlanta Georgia (1964)

• Municipal Art Commission, City Han, Los Angeles, California (1946)
• Solon de L'Art Libre, Modern Museum of Art, Paris, France (1947)
• First Annual Veterans' Exhibition, L. A. Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (1946)
• City Show at Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California. (1946–47)
• National Orange Show, San Bernardino, California (1949–50)
• Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, California (1949–51)
• Print Club, Albany, New York National Serigraph Society, New York City, N. Y. (1949)
• Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California San Francisco Museum of Art, California (1949)
• Arizona State Fair, Phoenix Arizona Modern Institute of Art, Beverly Hills, California (1949)
• First Annual Exhibition, Santa Paula, California (1949)
• Los Angeles Annual, County Museum, Los Angeles, California (1950–55)
• Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California (1950)
• Western Drawing Institute Show, Jepson's Gallery, Los Angeles, California (1950–51)
• Pennell Exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (1950)
• Laguna National Print Exhibition, Laguna Beach, California (1950)
• California State Fair, Sacramento, California (1949–50)
• Landau Gallery Group Show, LaCieniga Blvd., Los Angeles, California (1951)

• Newspaper "Paris Montparnasse" Paris, France (1947)
• Art News Magazine, December (1950)
• Newspaper "Times" Los Angeles, California (1949)
• "Sacramento Bee" Sacramento, California (1954)
• Les Archives Historiques D'Art Contemporain De La Biennale De Venise (1954)
• Prints of California Artists, Crest of Hollywood, California (1954)
• The News-Review Roseburg, Oregon (1986)

• Artists from Los Angeles
• Painters from Virginia
• People from Petersburg, Virginia
• Los Angeles City College alumni
• American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
• 1918 births
• 1996 deaths
• Chouinard Art Institute alumni
• 20th-century American painters
• American male painters
• 20th-century American printmakers
• 20th-century American male artists
• American painter, 20th-century birth stubs

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