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...Oslo jeweler and an apprentice jeweler himself, Sather turned to art after he bought his young wife a paintbox for Christmas. "She never got it," he says. "I started in painting myself and found I couldn't stop." Sather went to art school and learned all he could, then embarked for Canada with his family. His reasons: "A Canadian consul in Norway told me this was a wonderful country. Besides, I hadn't been here before. If you walk on the same street too many times, you don't see anything...
Pleissner's artistic career was decided in 1916, when he was eleven and a friend gave him a paintbox "filled with all the colors in the world." After high school in his native Brooklyn, Pleissner spent four years studying figure painting and portraiture at Manhattan's Art Students League-and wishing he were out of doors. He has painted open-air pictures ever since. During World War II. Pleissner painted pictures of Aleutian bases for the Air Force and, later, of the Normandy breakthrough for LIFE, and developed the wanderlust that goads him today. Most of the watercolors...
...more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...
When he first turned up in Paris in 1839, the farm boy was a little hard for his art teachers to take. He sat at the back of the life class with a huge paintbox by his side, doing studies three times as big as anyone else's. Instead of pumping his instructors he wandered alone in the Louvre, picked up a lot from looking at Rembrandt and the Spaniards...
...artist, Churchill made a timid start, but his fighting nature soon reasserted itself. "We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paintbox. And for this Audacity is the only ticket...