An immigrant from Bohemia, Sahula-Dycke studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, was a member of the Chicago Art Directors Club, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he won a prize in 1926.  He later moved to Dallas, Texas, where he became the Art Director for an advertising agency.     

Born in Fresno, CA on March 3, 1913. Phillips studied sculpture at the CSFA under Stackpole and Piazzoni. A traveling scholarship from that school allowed for one year in Europe. After returning to San Francisco in 1938, she executed fountain figures on Treasure Island for the GGIE. Phillips moved to NYC in 1941 and lived there until her death on Jan. 22, 1995. Exh: CSFA, 1932 (prize); SFAA, 1936-48; Copley Foundation 1958 (award). In: St Joseph's Church crucifix (Sacramento); Maritime Museum (SF); SFMA.

Born in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Vera Andrus attended the Minnesota School of Architecture and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 1934, she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Boardman Robinson, George Groz and Eugene Fitsch.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sam Stetson was declared a prodigy and was sent to study at the Chicago Art Institute at the age of 15, becoming a teacher there at the age of just 18.
 
He went on to study with:
Andre Lhote, Paris 
Fernand Leger, Paris 
The Bauhaus, Germany
Hans Hoffman, in both California and New York
David Karfunkel, New York
Samuel Marcus Adler, NYU, New York

Born in 1922 in Guentersberge, Germany, Karl Hagedorn studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. For a number of years, he designed and executed mosaics, murals, and stained glass windows until he immigrated to the United States. Living in St. Paul, Minnesota, he worked as a free-lance artist and taught at Hamline University and the St. Paul Art Center. His first major solo exhibition was at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with frequent one man and group shows in the US and Europe from then on.

Jean Prouvé was a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. His main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities

Poul Volther was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 2, 1923 and died on January 23, 2001.   He studied design at the Arts and Crafts School in Copenhagen. As a teacher at Denmark's Design School, he encouraged hundreds of students to aim for high quality craftsmanship.