Frederick Monhoff - Career

Career

Monhoff taught design at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles (1926-1950) and at the Pasadena Art Institute (1959). During the 1940s, he also taught architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as a design architect for the Los Angeles County Architectural Divisions and designed numerous public buildings and private residences in Southern California in the Los Angeles area, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Orange County, and in Northern California in the Napa Valley.

The International Printmakers Society of California awarded Monhoff a bronze medal for Best Print or Best Series of Prints in 1924 and he was listed in Who's Who in California, 1942-1943. The Frederick Monhoff Memorial Prize and The Frederick Monhoff Printing Lab at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California are named in his honor. In early 2000, Monhoff's work was featured in the Sweet Briar College gallery exhibition, "White to Blue: American Art as Reflection of Social Class in the 20th Century." Collections of his papers, architectural plans, and art work are held at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

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