HARRY VAN DINE
Born Harold VanDine, in Connecticut, USA, in 1930
Harry won a full tuition scholarship to Yale College, where he studied architecture, receiving a Bachelors degree, and a commission as an officer in the United States Navy, in 1952. In 1958, after three years’ active service in the Navy, he received his Masters from the School of Architecture, also at Yale, graduating at the top of his class and earning the William Wirt Winchester Traveling Fellowship, the Silver Medal for Excellence in Architecture, from the Connecticut AIA, and a traditional architectural school honor, the Henry Adams Book Award.

The following years were fully occupied in the professional practice of architecture, as the prime designer in a succession of several significant Detroit area firms, during which time buildings under his design direction won over 50 significant awards. Mr. Van Dine was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 1980, and received Gold Medals from the Detroit Chapter, AIA in 1987, and the Michigan AIA in 1991, both in the category of Design.

After retiring, Harry has shifted the center of his artistic interests from architecture to oil painting. Whereas before he had to understand and respond to the physical and psychological needs of human beings for the design and creation of buildings FOR them, now his paintings explore the physical and psychological elements OF human beings.

During the winter months of 1996 thru 2000, Harry studied painting with Keith Keller, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and took classes when in Michigan with such valuable resources as Bob Wilbert, George Hriczik, and Joe Maniscalco.

Five Painters Show, San Miguel de Allende, 1999.
One Person Show, San Miguel de Allende, 2000.
Annual Michigan Artists Juried Show, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Group Show, Birmingham/Bloomfield Art Center, 2000.
Group Show, Medici Gallery, Traverse City, MI, 2000.
Group Show, Grand Traverse Resort, MI, 2001.
Group juried show, Grosse Point Art Assoc, 2003.
One Person Show, Ra Luz Gallery, 2004 and 2005 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Individual Show Italmoda, Royal Oak, MI., 2005
Group Show, Main Street Gallery, Leland, MI., 2005.
Group Show Casa Diana San Miguel de Allende, 2006.
Current Show, Gallery Relox 46 San Miguel de Allende, 2008.


He is represented in private collections in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Miguel de Allende, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York, Annapolis, Ft Lauderdale, Akron, and Portland Or., among other cities.

Harry now maintains his studio in a home of his design, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.