Mun S. Quan was a landscape painter in the Chinese tradition and a professor and medical scientist at the Florida State Board of Health. He was born in 1917 in Canton, China and his family settled in Jacksonville, Florida in 1926. Quan studied at the Canton Academy of Art and with Ko-Kim Fu in Canton, China as well as with Nicholas Volpe in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

. He was a professor of art at Jacksonville University

Jacksonville University

Jacksonville University is a private university in Jacksonville, Florida, on the banks of the St. Johns River. The school was founded in 1934 as a two year college and was known as Jacksonville Junior College until 1958, when it shifted its focus to four-year university degrees and adopted its...

 from the early '70s to the early '90s. He became chief of painting at Jacksonville University. Artist Barbara Januszkiewicz

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Barbara Morrison Januszkiewicz is an American painter, multi-media artist and filmmaker. She specializes in watercolor painting in a hybrid style – 'realism handled in a impressionist manner'. Her artwork has appeared predominantly in the Washington, D.C., area, including the Phillips Collection,...

studied under his direction.