Vavruska, Frank
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Vavruska, Frank
Surname
Vavruska
firstName
Frank
country origin
United States
gender
Male
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Vavruska, Frank
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He was born in 1917 in Antigo, Wisconsin, to Czech parents. He studied art at University of Wisconsin (1935-38) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1938-41), where he took a BFA and was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, which enabled him to paint and travel in Mexico (1941-42, again 1945-46). While hospitalized in England in the US Army during WWII, Vavruska produced many paintings which were the basis for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.