Dean Ellis
American 1920 -

Born on Christmas Day in 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, Dean Ellis attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1941. World War II interrupted his education and for the next four years he served as an infantryman in the Pacific Theatre. At the end of the war Ellis returned to his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art, then completed his education at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. In 1950 Life Magazine selected him as one of 19 promising painters. Ellis has designed several stamps for the United States and foreign governments. His U.S. Postage stamps include the 6¢ Arkansas River Navigation, 6¢ Natural History, 6¢ America's Hospitals postcard, 10¢ Jefferson Memorial and 20¢ Flag Over Supreme Court. Ellis has shown his work at the Whitney Museum, New York (1949, 1951, 1954), the Metropolitan (1949, 1951), the National Academy (1957, 1959, 1960) and at most of the major museums throughout the United States. In addition, he is represented in 27 private collections in the United States.