{"id":4005,"date":"2022-03-29T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=4005"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:13:25","slug":"george-frederiksen-1911-1995","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/george-frederiksen-1911-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"George Frederiksen 1911-1995"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277101000_1748895498796076_8894633203142263999_n.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>George Frederiksen, of Western&#8217;s creative art department and his prize-winning &#8220;Town Square&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Painter George Frederiksen (1911 \u2013 1995) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and attended Milwaukee\u2019s Layton School of Art (now the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design). Frederiksen worked for Western Publishing for 36 years, first as an illustrator, eventually becoming the Art Director. After retiring in 1976, Frederiksen married local writer Betty Ren Wright. Frederiksen taught painting classes at Wustum for eight years and was a member of the RAMA Board of Directors. (From Racine Art Museum)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter George Frederiksen (1911 \u2013 1995) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and attended Milwaukee\u2019s Layton School of Art (now the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design). Frederiksen worked for Western Publishing for 36 years, first as an illustrator, eventually becoming the Art Director. After retiring in 1976, Frederiksen married local writer Betty Ren Wright. Frederiksen&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4005","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4005\/revisions\/4010"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}