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Makielski, Leo A.
Portrait-painter and landscape artist. Born in Tioga County, Pa.; studied at Chicago Art Institute under Ralph Clarkson, and won many prizes and 6 scholarships, among them the John Quincy Adams Traveling Scholarship. Spent the years 1909 to 1913 in Europe, painting under such famous teachers and masters as Lucien Simon, Rene Menard and Henri Martin, at the Academy Julien and the Academic Grande Chaumiere. In 1911 and 1912 exhibited his works in the Grand Salon, Paris, France receiving high honors. The University of Michigan purchased for its Memorial Hall a collection of one hundred charcoal portraits of notable faculty members of the University by Makielski. He made portraits of: Margaret Anglin, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Studebaker, Albert Russell Erskine, Dr. Henry Hutchins, Mortimer Cooley, Louis Fisher, Henry Montgomery, Robert Frost, Jessie Bonstelle, Fritze Scheff, Alfred Minton, Prince of Wales, Samuel M. Vauclain, Countess Elektra Rosanska. In 1931 completed a portrait study of Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. Made portraits of Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of Interior, Mrs. Wilbur, Tytus
Filipowicz, Dr. John H. Finley, editor of the New York Times, and Mr. Max Colter. Resides in Detroit, Mich.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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