Artist
Franklin Boggs
Warsaw, Indiana 1914 — 2009 Beloit
The Regionalist painter Franklin Boggs worked in a mid-twentieth-century style that blended Midwestern realism with American abstraction. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked briefly as a muralist and illustrator. In 1944, Abbott Laboratories partnered with the federal government to hire Boggs as a war correspondent/artist in the South Pacific. Remarkable for their portrayal of human degradation, the majority of Boggs’s service paintings are now in the U.S. Army Center for Military History, Washington, DC. After the war, Boggs received numerous commissions from national corporations and taught at Beloit College in Wisconsin (1945–77).
