title: Joseph Fleck
text: # Joseph Fleck
  
  Joseph Amadeus Fleck (August 25, 1892 – April 5, 1977) was an American painter and muralist. His works include The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach, in Hugo, Oklahoma, and First Mail Crossing Raton Pass and Unloading the Mail in Raton, in Raton, New Mexico.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Joseph A. Fleck was born in Austria in 1892 and received his academic training at the Royal Viennese Art Academy and Royal Art Academy in Munich. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 and then settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1925. From 1942 to 1946 he was Dean of Fine Arts and artist in residence at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Arizona State Fair, First Prize, 1928
  * Kansas City Art Institute, 1923, 1929, 1934 (prize)
  * Art Institute of Chicago, 1927 (prize)
  