Word: self-taught
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...Self-taught and self-sufficient, he had always been somber and harsh. He had lived in Mexico City's red light district, painted its prostitutes and beggars in dark lurid colors. He found little to be joyful about in his own life or in the life about...
Dewitt Peters, a Californian who had moved to Port-au-Prince for his health, started Haiti's first art school three years ago, just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...
Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
...massive a work, couched in the Murray style (the ex-governor is largely self-taught and his book is one of the longest literary rambles on record), poses certain problems for the lay reader. So Author Murray included a guide through the labyrinth. "First, read 'Post-Logue' at end of Book IX, Volume III; Second, then begin at Chapter A, Book IX, Volume III, and read all that Book; then, Third, begin first Chapter Volume I, keeping in mind parts first read...