Art Sinsabaugh

Art Sinsabaugh was born in Irvington, New Jersey in 1924.  He married twice and has 2 daughters.  He studied photography under Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Harry Callihan, and Arthur Seigel at the institute of Design IIT.  He served as a photographer for the War Department from 1942-43 and with the U.S. Army from 1943-45.  He went to teach at the ID from 1949- 59.  He made a break through as an artist in the early 1960s with a glant "banquet" camera that produced 12*20 inch negatives.  He captured the sweeping horizons of nature and the relationships between the land and its conventional components He has received many awards starting with New Talent U.S.A., Society of Typographic Arts Award, Art Directors Club of Indiana Award.  He has also received several grants such as:  Illinois Arts Council Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship, and numerous University of Illinois faculty research grants.