John Howard Sanden

{{Short description|American portrait artist (1935–2022)}} {{Use American English|date=December 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = John Howard Sanden | image = | image_size = | caption = Official Portrait of First Lady Laura Bush, donated to the White House | birth_date = {{birth date|1935|8|6}} | birth_place = Austin, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|24|1935|8|6}} | death_place = | occupation = Portrait Painter, Illustrator, Designer, Artist, | spouse = Elizabeth Sanden | parents = {{ubl|Rev. O.E. Sanden,| Carolyn Sanden}} | children = {{ubl|Jonathan Sanden, | Pamela (Sanden) McMahon}} | education =  Minneaoplis School of Art }}

'''John Howard Sanden''' (August 6, 1935 – December 24, 2022) was an American portrait artist.

==Biography==

===Early life=== Sanden was born in Austin, Texas, on August 6, 1935. He graduated from the Minneapolis School of Art in 1956 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration.<ref name=alumnus>[http://mcad.edu/125/alumni/john-howard-sanden Alumni Careers - John Howard Sanden, ’56], Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Accessed December 4, 2013.</ref>

===Career=== Sanden was the Art Director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association from 1955 to 1970. He founded the Portrait Institute. He was also an instructor at The Art Students League of New York. He won the 2005 Portraits, Inc. Lifetime Achievement Award, for which a scholarship is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Huebner |title=Presidential portrait artist John Howard Sanden to speak Tuesday at Birmingham Museum of Art |url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/09/presidential_portrait_artist_j.html |newspaper=AL |publisher=Alabama Media Group |date=September 23, 2013}}</ref>

For thirty-three years, Sanden had studios on the eleventh and then tenth floors of the South Studio Tower of Carnegie Hall, New York City, and in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

On May 31, 2012, Sanden's official White House portraits of former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush were unveiled.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18290003 | work=BBC News | title=Wise-cracking George W Bush likes presidential portrait | date=May 31, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/editorials/hanging-george-bush/ |work=The New York Sun | title=Hanging George Bush | date=May 31, 2012 |accessdate=December 4, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Ridgefield-artist-paints-official-Bush-portraits-3608509.php |work=The New Times |publisher=Hearst Media Services Connecticut | title=Ridgefield artist paints official Bush portraits | date=June 4, 2012 |accessdate=December 4, 2013 }}</ref>

===Personal life and death=== Sanden died on December 24, 2022, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ridgefield CT artist who painted former President Bush dies at 87 |url=https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Ridgefield-artist-John-Howard-Sanden-Bush-portrait-17679633.php |access-date=December 28, 2022 |publisher=The Ridgefield Press |date=December 28, 2022}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{Official|http://www.johnhowardsanden.com}} *[http://portraitinstitute.com/ Portrait Institute]

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