Education
Dohanos attended the Cleveland School of Artist
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Stevan Dohanos
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He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting. He worked in fine art as well as in commercial art Dohanos worked for the Section of Painting and Sculpture of the United States. Treasury Department, painting several post office murals, including those for West Palm Beach and Charlotte Amelie.
In the 1960s he became chairman of the Citizens" Stamp Advisory Committee, which selected art to appear on United States postage stamps.
His easel paintings and prints have been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Dartmouth College. He was nationally known as an illustrator and magazine cover artist, particularly for his work appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, for which he created over 125 covers.
Membership
He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters and the Society of Illustrators. He was a founding faculty member of the Famous Artists School of Westport, Connecticut. He was a member of the Dutch Treat Club in New York City.
