John Collias, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Collias

American painter and illustrator

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1918

Place of Birth: Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 30-Mar-2017

Profession: artist, painter, drawer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

John George Collias (June 12, 1918 – March 29, 2017) was a Western American painter, illustrator, and commercial artist.
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he lived and worked in Boise, Idaho, since the early 1940s and contributed work to the Idaho Statesman, Boise Weekly, Life Magazine, the Gowen Field Beacon, the Allen Noble Boise State Athletic Hall of Fame, the College of Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame, and to the books Sawtooth Tales by Dick D'Easum and John Collias: Round About the Boise Valley.
Collias' prolific work spans a number of genres including portraiture, landscape art, wartime military posters, ad and billboard art.
He was perhaps best known regionally as the artist behind "A Portrait of A Distinguished Citizen," a weekly portrait feature that ran in the Idaho Statesman from 1963 to 1993.