Word: self-taught
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...result, the best firsthand views of history in the making are the work of self-taught engravers and limners, who turned out such rough-and-ready works as The Battle of Lexington (above}, a joint work by Painter Ralph Earl and Engraver Amos Doolittle. both believed to have been members of the New Haven Cadets under Captain Benedict Arnold.* Between Copley's departure and Stuart's return in 1793, the best contemporary portraits of the men who led the Revolution were all done by Soldier-Painter Peale...
...self-taught sculptor, Milles left his home in Sweden at 22 to become a gym instructor in Chile, but he got no farther than Paris. There he de cided to make sculpture his career...
JEAN CARZOU, 48, a self-taught painter who works with delicate, fuzzy line to produce evocative paintings with attenuated, surrealist overtones...
Most artists went to the West as strangers. The earliest first-rate American artist to whom the new West was a natural environment was George Caleb Bingham, a self-taught painter who grew up in Missouri. Bingham's Osage warrior lying in ambush is tense testimony to the wagoner's haunting knowledge that Indian eyes were always on him. But Bingham's masterpieces are the superbly drawn scenes of settled frontier life, electioneering, shooting competitions and riverboat life. Painted in the 1840s and 1850s, they already point to the days when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will...
...broadening the eligibility for the advance tests in the hands of the CEEB, advance placement has changed from a faculty-to-faculty process to a student-to-college process. Hanson feels the new program will also let hundreds of self-taught students apply for advance placement...