Eugene Henry Mackaben Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1920 - d. 1984

A World War II veteran from Chicago, Mackaben received a diploma in drawing from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1948. Soon afterwards, he went to Mexico where he studied at the Insituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende 1948-49 and, from 1949-1950, at the Insituto Nacional de Belas Artes, Mexico City, where he studiedunder David Alfaro Siquieros and José Ruiz. In 1953, he graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a B.A. in education. Mackaben moved to Tucson in 1953 showing at the Tucson Art Center gallery and with the 261 Gallery Group at the Temple of Music. Throughout the 1950s Mackaben continued to show regionally and locally with the Tucson Fine Arts Association. In 1960 his work Punks was featured in the Tucson Daily Citizen in conjunction with an exhibition at the Tempe of Music and Art Galleries. In October of that year he showed as part of a University of Arizona Art Gallery faculty exhibition