Fred Q. Hartsook

Hartsook attended primary schools in Winterset, Iowa, and moved to Des Moines for grade school and North High, graduating in 1915. In 1917 he attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied architecture and painting with Dawson. Served as a Private in the Coast Artillery at Fortress Monroe, Virginia and was in officers training when the Armistice was signed 1919. He worked as a designer and illustrator, and was registered architect of the state of Iowa. He confined his practice to interior architecture and decoration, specializing as an interior decorator utilizing over mantels and murals as a specialty. He taught mechanical drawing at East High School in 1920. In 1921-22 he was a Boy Scout executive in Merrill, Wisconsin. In 1925 he entered a partnership with a school architect until 1928.

Hartsook exhibited in the Iowa Art Salon, 1928, first prize, "Afternoon in Winter"; 1929, Sweepstakes, "Woodland Brook." Mr. Hartsook was a consistent exhibitor in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934, at the Iowa Art Salon and Great Hall, Iowa State College. Three of his paintings hang in the permanent collection at Iowa State College (currently in 2005 only one painting is known on the ISU campus).