Albert Kenneth Ness

Background

Ness, Albert Kenneth was born on June 21, 1903 in Saint Ignace, Michigan, United States. Son of Albert Klingberg and Violet Matilda (Sutherland).

Education

Student, University Detroit, 1923—1924. Student, Detroit School Applied Art, 1924—1926. Student, Wicker School Fine Art, 1926—1928.

Career

Show-card writer, window display man S.S. Kresge Company, Detroit, 1923—1924. Artist poster and advertising Cunningham Drugs, 1924—1926. Artist layout lettering and design WL Flemming Studios, 1926—1928, McAleer Displays, Chicago, 1929—1932.

Artist, design assistant Layman-Whitney Associates, 1933. Layout artist, poster designer Elevated Advertising Company, Chicago, 1934—1937. Instructor, art director School Applied Art, 1938—1940.

Carnegie resident artist University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1941—1943. Director War Art Center, 1942—1943. Resident artist, associate professor art, 1943—1949.

Resident artist, professor art, 1949—1973. Resident artist, professor emeritus, from 1973.

Achievements

• Albert Kenneth Ness has been listed as a notable artist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Lenore Consuelo Chrisman, August 4, 1926. Children: Consuelo, James Kenneth, Jane Lenore.

Father:

Albert Klingberg Ness

Mother:

Violet Matilda (Sutherland) Ness

Spouse:

Lenore Consuelo Chrisman

child:

Consuelo Ness

child:

James Kenneth Ness

child:

Jane Lenore Ness