MAKK FAMILY

Americo and Eva's son, A. B. was born 1951, while they were living in Brazil. Exhibiting at the age of five, A.B. was called "the little Picasso", for his then cubist style works. He graduated high school in New York City and got his degree in psychology from the University of Hawaii.

Although never pressured by his parents to become an artist, A.B. began exhibiting with them in 1975 and continues touring the country showing the family paintings.

Americo Imre Makk was born in 1927 in Hungary. He studied art at the Hungarian National Academy in Budapest and won a scholarship to Rome, where he won the Vatican Portrait Award.

He and his wife Eva were both appointed Professors at the Academy de Bellas Artes in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There they became official artists of the Brazilian government.

In 1962 they came to New York City to escape Brazil's political instability. Americo began his western theme painting when the Los Angeles Museum sent him to sketch ranches in California, a subject he also pursued in Texas.

In 1967 he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he used books and museums for initial research of his subject matter and then visited Indian reservations and western towns for first - hand observation. He has also done portraits, including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

An impressionist figure painter, Eva Makk was born in Ethiopia. Her father was a diplomat, and her mother was an Hungarian baroness. She began painting at age four, studied art in Paris and graduated summa cum laude from the Rome Academy of Fine Arts, where she met Americo. Along with her husband, she painted huge murals while in Brazil and once spent thirteen months in the Amazon jungle on a painting expedition.