Wayne Nowack (1932 - 2004) was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He studied at the State University of Iowa, where he received a BA, MA, and finally MFA in painting, in 1950. In the ensuing decade, he was involved in art therapy in public and private hospitals, and from 1957-1965 he was an Associate Professor of Art at Union College, in Schenectady, New York. Nowack was represented by Allan Stone Gallery from 1961-1981 and Rolf Nelson Gallery from 1965-1968. Exhibited widely, he has been in shows at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. His work is included in many prestigious collections, including the Fort Worth Museum, Des Moines Art Center, the collections of Williams College, Skidmore College, and Yale University, as well as the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection. During his life, Nowack received a Danforth Foundation Grant in 1963 and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1973. He died in 2004 in West Danby, New York, a place he called “Lovearth.”