DATE OF THIS ** ORIGINAL ** ITEM: 1920 Frederic Kimball Mizen was born in Chicago and showed an aptitude for art at an early age. In 1904, as a teenager, he enrolled at the J. Francis Smith Academy in Chicago, where instructor Walter Ufer encouraged him to depict Southwestern subjects, then coming into great popularity. Mizen found work as a catalogue illustrator for Sears Roebuck and Company and attended evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He soon became a highly successful illustrator, creating art for popular magazine covers, billboards, and promotional materials and counting the Santa Fe Railroad and Coca-Cola among his major patrons. Mizen made numerous trips to the Southwest and became well known for his paintings of Native Americans and the landscapes of Arizona and New Mexico. He also established a thriving practice of portrait painting and was favored for official corporate portraits. An educator as well as a fine and commercial artist, Mizen opened his own art school, the Frederic Mizen Academy of Art, in Chicago in 1936; it is now remembered in part for revoking its offer of admission to young African American artist Charles White on the grounds of his race. Thanks to his artistic conservatism, Mizen found a favored position in Mrs. Frank Logan’s Society for Sanity in Art, which crusaded against modernism. He also exhibited with the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, a conservative organization that broke away from the Chicago Society of Artists in 1922; with the Chicago Art Galleries, where he won the Municipal Art League Prize in 1951; and with the Artist Guild, an organization of commercial artists. A resident of suburban River Forest, he was active in the Austin, Oak Park, and River Forest Art League (now the Oak Park Art League). In 1943, with enrollment declining due to wartime enlistment, Mizen closed his academy. Nine years later he was appointed head of the art department at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, where he introduced commercial art studies, art education, and other practical subjects into the fine arts curriculum. In Texas and in Oklahoma he found important corporate commissions for both portraits and landscapes, as well as opportunities to show his work in local colleges, libraries, and women’s clubs. On his retirement in 1960, the artist opened a studio in Austin, Texas, moving the following year to Altadena, California. Mizen was painting a series of Indian scenes for the Santa Fe Railroad when he died there at the age of seventy-six. B. Kuppenheimer & Co., or simply Kuppenheimer, was a men's clothing manufacturing and retail operation based in Chicago, Illinois and later Atlanta, Georgia. In 1852, Bernard Kuppenheimer, who immigrated to America in 1850, founded a retail clothing store in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1863, Julius Kohn, Martin Clayburgh, and Morris Einstein founded Kohn, Clayburgh & Einstein at 27 Lake Street in Chicago. Only two years later, in 1865, Kohn retired and Bernard Kuppenheimer, who relocated to Chicago leaving the Terre Haute store under the supervision of his brother John, and David Lindauer became members. Clayburgh, Einstein, Kuppenheimer, and Lindauer continued to operate the company without changing the name. They operated out of the Lake Street location until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, when their building was burnt to the ground and they suffered losses totaling $200,000 (equivalent to $5,087,000 in 2023). After rebuilding, they resumed business and in July 1872, moved to the corner of Randolph Street In 1876, the business was dissolved and Kuppenheimer formed B. Kuppenheimer & Co. The new company was composed of him, his son Jonas Kuppenheimer, and Samuel Nathan. The remaining members of the Kohn, Claybugh & Einstein reorganized as Einstein, Longini & Co. B. Kuppenheimer & Co. started in business on Wabash Avenue and stayed there until 1880. In January 1880, Kuppenheimer & Co. moved to Madison Street and Louis B. Kuppenheimer, the second son of Bernard Kuppenheimer, was admitted as a partner. As of 1884, Kuppenheimer & Co had annual sales of nearly $1,000,000 (equivalent to $33,911,000 in 2023).[2] In 1903, Kuppenheimer died and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago. In 1906, the company operated "The House of Kuppenheimer" branches in Boston and New York, with sales in Washington, D.C. handled by Isidor Grosner of 1013 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. During the World War I, Kuppenheimer manufactured the uniforms for the U.S. Army. By 1910, the company employed close to 2,000 men and women at shops in and around Chicago.[ In 1912, Louis became vice-president of the company. In 1920, Albert Kuppenheimer retired from the company. He died in California in 1931 at the age of 64 although his residence in Chicago was the Drake Hotel. Later in 1920, Louis Kuppenheimer became president of B. Kuppenheimer & Co. In 1921, Jonas Kuppenheimer, who had been serving as president of "The House of Kuppenheimer," died. In 1926, Louis Kuppenheimer retired as president of the company. In 1936, Louis, the last living son of founder Bernard Kuppenheimer, died. In 1959, Lester E. Frankenstein succeeded Bertram J. Cahn to become president of the company. Frankenstein was previously the vice-president.
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