Other than working on parakeets and a champion black angus, there is a man who also likes working on alligators and it is growing into a successful and highly specialized art business. He can paint something as minute and odd as a pet flea just as long as a high quality photograph of it is presented. What he is doing as of today only takes into consideration horses, birds, cats, dogs, rabbits, and one alligator.
When he was still a kid, he was fascinated in animals and art. When it comes to supporting a wife and a youngster all artists know that selling fine paintings cannot make for a good living. He moved to the Bay Area and attempted to pursue a career in commercial art as he continued studying. Fine art became his hobby during World War II when he opened a display business of his own.
He made a portrait of a friend's siamese cats and this was when his wife suggested that he develop his hobby into a business as his work delighted even the cats that ended up almost destroying the painting by purring and rubbing against it. When it comes to his income from the pet portrait painting business the results are rather impressive.
He featured several of his latest masterpieces at the cow palace. What happened next was that he was showered with request to do portraits of a pet parakeet whose owner raised it from an egg, a champion rabbit, as well as fine show horses. There was a well known recording artist not to mention television actor singer who requested for a painting of his horse. He was contracted to make the portrait of the award winning black angus. The subjects usually do not kick and he likes it better than painting people portraits.
The new director of the gallery and museum of a big university in Santa Clara is the former director of a big museum in San Jose who assumed her post last month and succeeds a reverend who died early last month. This new director is also a well known artist who exhibited through the nation and at the palace of the legion of honor locally.
There will be an exhibit at a gallery in San Francisco displaying the works of a local sculptor. From his works, thirty of them covering neo classical to highly abstracted forms will be shown. Other than being a highly talented artist, he also conducts a ballet school and he is a photographer and writer. He was one of the stars in the film, spectre of a rose. There will be an exhibit displaying more than 200 objects, books, prints, paintings, and sculptures from a private collection and it will be presented in another famous museum.
Covering 50 years is the collection of one couple from Pennsylvania. It includes some of the works of more than a dozen famous painters, and scores of other historic greats. It was when he was still a student of Harvard that the husband began to collect books but now by purchasing them on installment he has been able to acquire many of the more valuable objects.
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