For a copy of this title, please send your mailing information to Debi Brooks at 240-895-4282 or [log in to unmask]; please don’t contact me, Katherine Ryner, I’m only the intermediary.

 

Bartholomew Mako Art Collection

Compiled in Two-Volume Set

 

Available Free to Libraries

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Press Release #09-145

 

(St. Mary’s City, MD) July 21, 2009 — St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) is donating numerous copies of a two-volume set of artist Bartholomew Mako’s colorful illustrations to interested libraries across the country.  In 2005, Mako’s son, Gene, donated a portion of his father’s art collection to the college to display throughout the campus.  The collection has been beautifully compiled with information about the artist and his son.  If you are interested in obtaining a copy for your library, please contact Debi Brooks at 240-895-4282 or [log in to unmask] 

 

Bartholomew Mako was born in Hungary and graduated from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in 1913. Following four years in the Hungarian Army during World War I, he left Hungary with his wife and son, stopping for three years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before finally settling in Los Angeles, California.

 

Mako quickly found work with the Hollywood studios and produced paintings that promoted films by the legendary showman Sid Grauman and silent movie stars like Tony Moreno. His works can still be seen at the 5th Street Theater in Seattle, the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, St. Sophia Greek Church in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Zoo, among many others.

 

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and Kiplinger’s. The Princeton Review named it a “best value college” in its 2009 edition. Founded in 1840 as Maryland’s “monument school” commemorating the state’s first capital, SMCM is the state’s only public honors college, offering “an Ivy-level College with a public-school price tag” (Newsweek).

 

Some 2,000 students attend the college, which has the highest graduation rate for all Maryland public colleges and universities, and an SAT average for student admissions of 1848. The school’s waterfront campus along the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland is home to the 2009 National Intercollegiate Sailing Association Co-ed champions.