Wendell Brazeau papers, 1950-1961

Wendell Brazeau grew up in the "art-impoverished" city of Spokane, Washington, where he was born in 1910.He moved to Seattle in 1928 to enroll in the University of Washington, graduating with a BFA in art in 1933. Brazeau worked a number of odd jobs afterwards, including a stint at Boeing during the war drawing 3-D perspectives from engineers' plans. Following the war he returned to UW to complete his MFA, and remained there as a faculty member in the Art Department until his death in 1974. (information taken from https://www.cs.washington.edu/art/WendellBrazeau)