About the artist:

Lumen Martin Winter, America's most reknowned muralist, spent his childhood in western Kansas, on his father's ranch, which stood along the Santa Fe Trail. Listed in "Who's Who in America," and "Who's Who in American Art, "the celebrated artist still remembers noticing the ruts from the wagons in the ground and asking his father about them. His father said, "That is the Santa Fe Trail!" The place stayed in young Winter's mind. After attending the Cleveland School of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, serving as an artist with the U.S. Signal Corps in the Air Force in WW II, working as a cartoonist and designer, Lumen Winter went to Santa Fe to settle in 1939. The next 39 years were to catapult Lumen Winter into the forefront as America's most renowned muralist and artist. His work, described bya Paris artcritic in The Paris Moderne, "is not abstract nor is it realistic, but he has created synthesis which is all his own." "I have followed every movement since I was thirteen years old," states Mr. Winter, "but I have found all these movements to stem from the classic ages, even going back to the Ancients. I like the Renaissance because of its vitality and force which is similar to the expression of the 20th century. Science has crept into our art to the point where it is difficult to say what is art and what is science." His rare genius is demonstrated in the murals at the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapels in Colorado Springs, at the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D.C., at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in the Capitol, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Sheraton Hotel Lobby and the National Bank in Washington, D.C. among others. LUMEN WINTER, MURALS AND SCULPTURES Fisherman Mural, Brooklyn Savings Bank, Brooklyn, New York National Wildlife Federation, Headquarters Building, Washington, D.C. Dedicated by the late President John F. Kennedy Labor Is Life, AFL-CIO Headquarters Building, Washington, D.C. Dedicated by the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower Texas Abstract Mosaic, Lobby, Sheraton Southland Center, Dallas, Texas Six Wood Carvings, Vaqueros and Alamo Rooms, Southland Center, Dallas Texas Stampede, Town Room, Southland Center, Dallas, Texas The Conversion of St. Paul, Facade, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Lincoln Center, New York City Rhapsody in Gold, Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City Our Lady of the Thruways, thirty foot bronze figure overlooking the New York and New England Thruways on the Cross Thruway Our Lady of the Skies, U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dedicated by Francis Cardinal Spellman Mosaic, Protestant area of the Air Force Academy Chapel National Bank of Washington, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Union Central Life Insurance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio St. Francis with the Birds and Animals of Missouri, St. Francis Hospital, Marceline, Missouri Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, New York Fairfield University, New Library Building, Fairfield, Connecticut Cathedral College, Hillside, Long Island, New York Chapel, Hawthorne, New York P.S. #84, Brooklyn, New York Hotel St. Regis-Sheraton, New York, New York Apollo VIII, Official Medallion, struck by Franklin Mint South Shore High School, Brooklyn, New York Kansas State Capitol, Rotunda, Topeka, Kansas Gerald R. Ford Health & Physical Education Center ONE-MAN SHOWS Argent Gallery, New York Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan Grand Rapids, Michigan Public Library and Art Museum '76 Brown Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland Galerie Internationale, New York St. Regis Hotel, New York (Thirteen Abstracts inspired by the chaotic flight of Apollo XII I) all now in the James Collection GROUP COLLECTIONS Library of Congress, City of Old Rochelle, France Vatican, Rome University of Israel Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas The Chicago Art Institute Sculptor's Collectors Group, Columbus Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio Grand Rapids, Michigan College Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Windham College, Putney, Vt. Washington County Museum, Hagerstown Md., Limited Print, Book of the Month Club COLLECTOR'S GROUP The White House U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado West Point, N.Y. Chanel XIII Collection Kansas State Historical Society Sterling Kansas Art Center Santa Fe Trail Museum, Lamed, Kansas NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Cincinnati Art Museum Brooklyn Museum Chicago Art Institute Detroit Art Institute Alabama Watercolor Society Ohio University Architectural League of New York Annual Gold Medal Exhibitions Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art Salmagundi Club, New York National Academy of Design Allied Artists of America Veterans Society of Artists National Arts Club '78 Society of Acrylic Painters-American Academy of Arts and Letters-'79