George Vander Sluis

Sluis was born December 18, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1] He was married and had three children with his wife, Hildegarde Bristol Vander Sluis, who survived to 2009.^[2]

Vander Sluis designed two 1971 United States Air Mail stamps.^[3]

Serving in the United States Army in World War II, Vander Sluis was one of the 1,100 members of the Ghost Army, a secret tactical deception unit that was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2022. After the war he was a member of the art faculty at Syracuse University for 35 years.^[4] Just before his death, Vander Sluis painted a mural on the front of the Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse.^[5] He painted a New Deal program mural in the U.S. Post Office at Rifle, Colorado, in 1942, which is described in the listing of the building in the National Register of Historic Places.^[6][7] He also designed stamps for the United States Postal Service.^[8]

The Akron Art Museum holds a Sluis work titled Decayed Glory.^[9]