Word: whistler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horsehair watch chains. He made a fiddle and played at dances ("I really could bow!"). He sketched constantly, finally got to art school at 31, attended both night & day classes and won a gold medal. His instructors, he remembers, were reluctant even to discuss such subjects as "that modern Whistler." He made a success illustrating Wild West magazine stories, gave it up some 30 years ago to experiment with the freewheeling painting he does now. To live while he learned he "made frames for other artists who were selling...