George Vander Sluis (1915–1984) was an American artist known for his murals and postage stamp designs.
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]
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.[3] Just before his death, Vander Sluis painted a mural on the front of the Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse.[4] 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.[5] [6] He also designed stamps for the United States Postal Service.[7]
The Akron Art Museum holds a Sluis work titled Decayed Glory.[8]