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.
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Katherine H. Ryner
Associate Librarian
St. Mary's College of Maryland
18952 East Fisher Road
St. Mary' s City, MD 20686
240-895-4196
240-895-4492 (fax)