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Word: sapelo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freighter, spent several years decorating wax candles and painting posters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In the '20s he moved to Atlanta, met and married a girl from Rome (Ga.), started painting murals. When Tobacco Millionaire Dick Reynolds hired him to decorate a mansion on Sapelo Island, Ga., Painter Menaboni did a series of murals in which some of Reynolds' best friends appeared with the bodies of jungle animals. Sapelo Island was full of birds, and Menaboni started to paint them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Menaboni's Birds | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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