Denman Fink was a magazine illustrator, muralist, and designer. Born in Pennsylvania, Fink attended the Boston Museum School, Art Students League, in New York City, and the Pittsburgh School of Design. Fink worked as an illustrator for Scribner’s and Harper’s Magazines as well as Collier’s Weekly, Pictorial Review, American Magazine, Delineator, Red Cross and other magazines.
During World War I Fink painted one of twenty-four large canvases used for the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive at the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue in New York City. He also painted another large canvas for the American Library Association, commissioned for the Allied War Work Campaign, that was exhibited in larger cities of the country, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress.
Fink and his family moved permanently to Miami in 1924, joining his nephew George Merrick in the development of Coral Gables, FL. With Phineas Paist, the architect of Coral Gables, Fink helped design plans for the city, its entrances, fountains, plazas’ and the Venetian Pool. Fink was also head of the art department at the University of Miami for twenty-five years. In the 1940s he painted murals in government buildings, post offices, and other businesses in Florida. He died in Miami in 1956.
