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[[File:Ballator self portrait.jpg|thumb|"Self Portrait", inscribed "To Bill, John Ballator, 1941"]]
[[File:Mural4.jpg|thumb|"Contemporary Justice and Man", mural hanging in the US Department of Justice]]
'''John Robert Ballator''', {{date|1909-02-07}}-{{date|1967-09-05}}.[http://records.ancestry.com/John_Robert_Ballator_records.ashx?pid=158388153]
==Woozle says==
John Ballator was my mom's dad; he died when I was 2, so I have only vague memories of him. (There is a picture of him holding me not long before he died; I do think I remember that visit, or at least I remember remembering it. I also remember being told of his death.)

I took photos in ~2006 of all his paintings that Mom has, but haven't had time to process and upload them yet. Eventually...

His mural "Contemporary Justice and Man" (1937) is [http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/artists/john-ballator/ apparently] in the US Department of Justice building; another mural, "Development of St. Johns", is in the historic [[wikipedia:St. Johns Post Office (Portland, Oregon)|St. Johns Post Office]] (photos [http://wpamurals.org/stjohns.htm here]). [http://www.newdealartregistry.org/artist/Ballatorjohn/ Apparently] both of these murals were [http://www.newdealartregistry.org/ funded by New Deal programs].

==Links==
===Text===
* [http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?ID=219 brief bio]
* [[google:john&nbsp;ballator|Google]] finds many pages of informational snippets
===Paintings===
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindes/277125947/ Flickr] - photo by [[David Lindes]]
* [https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224266/page/3 at Menninger East Campus Canteen in Topeka, Kansas] ([https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224266 description])
* ''[http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=12650;type=101# Still Life]'' (1950)
===Books===
* ''[http://books.google.com/books/about/Oils_and_Graphics_John_Ballator.html?id=6creGwAACAAJ Oils and Graphics]'', 1949
===Reference===
* [http://records.ancestry.com/John_Robert_Ballator_records.ashx?pid=158388153 ancestry.com]
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/b/john_r_ballator/john_r_ballator.aspx AskART]
* [http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:siris_jul_136842 Smithsonian Institution]

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