Word: stuempfig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President and Fellows and unveiled a portrait of the retiring Master. When the curtain was drawn from around the painting, a copy of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was revealed first, and this removed, a still more startling apparition appeared--a likeness of Perkins, painted by Walter Stuempfig...
...Walter Stuempfig...
...until a knee injury eliminated him from football at the University of Kentucky that he began to concentrate on art. He studied at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, under a great teacher. Painter Walter Stuempfig...
Most of his other instructors were committed to abstraction, but Stuempfig, says Chumley, quickly saw that realism "was the right kind of thing for me." Chumley's subject matter is primarily rural ("It's where I grew up. It's my natural element"), and though his paintings seem simple, they are actually enormously complex. He works in tempera, "a slow medium," goes back to his subject day after day, adding new impressions, perfecting the composition, unlocking fresh secrets...