Dan Mieduch

b. 1947

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BORN IN

Detroit, Michigan

KNOWN FOR

Cowboy, frontier history and genre painting

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Daniel Meiduch

A representational oil painter of cowboys, both historic and contemporary, Dan Mieduch has lived in Arizona since 1975.

He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was drawing by the age of seven.  During high school, he took night art classes and began working in both oils and watercolors.  His father had a bar, and he sold his wildlife paintings to patrons for forty dollars each.

He earned a B.S. Degree from the University of Michigan in industrial design in 1969 and then served in the Army Medical Corps for eighteen months as a command artist in the Canal Zone.