Joseph S. Kozlowski

Joseph Stanley Kozlowski (1912–1992), American portrait and watercolor artist, was born in Frankfort, New York.

In 1938 he was appointed chief artist and photographer with the Poole-Crockett archaeological expedition to study the Mayan ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula undertaken by Syracuse University.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Kozlowski joined the Merchant Marine and served as an able-bodied seaman (AB) shipping war material from New Orleans, Louisiana and Corpus Christi, Texas through the Panama Canal to Honolulu, Hawaii and, as he was fond of saying, "boat loads of post holes" on the return trip.

From 1946 to 1949 he was a photography and art instructor at the Veterans Administration Hospital and rehabilitation facility in Bath, New York.

He eventually obtained teaching credentials and taught art in the East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District until he retired in the late 1970s.

Portrait of Dean H.G. Weiscotten by Joseph S. Kozlowski, 1946. Syracuse University Medical School collection.
Elizabeth Blackwell $0.18 USPS stamp.
Portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell , 1905. Syracuse University Medical School collection.
Portrait of Yvonne Holman, 1938
Tulum , painting by Joseph S. Kozlowski, 1940.