Budding Artist Aimed a Career in Commercial Art After Moving to the Bay Area

Portraiture is what one man is engaged in and his subjects include parakeets, alligators, and a winning black angus and this is not only becoming a highly specialized art business but a successful one as well. A fine quality photograph is all I need for a painting of a pet flea, says the master. His body of work as of this time consists only of cats, rabbits, horses, birds, dogs, and one alligator.

When he was still little, his fascination centered in creatures and creating. There are a lot of artists who know that selling fine paintings cannot provide for a good living when it comes to supporting a wife and a youngster. He moved to the Bay Area and attempted to pursue a career in commercial art as he continued studying. One hobby of his was fine art during World War II after he opened his own display business.

It was suggested by his wife that he develop his hobby into a business after he impressed a friend and his pair of siamese cats as he made a portrait of the felines that almost ruined it by purring and rubbing against it. When he went into the pet portrait painting business the resulting finances were impressive.

The cow palace was the home of his freshest masterpieces. 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. A well known television actor singer and recording artist requested him to create a portrait of his horse. He was especially chosen to paint the 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. A well known artist herself, the new director has exhibited through the nation and locally at the palace of the legion of honor.

Displaying the works of a local sculptor is a gallery in San Francisco. In the exhibit, thirty of his works will be shown covering neo classical to highly abstracted forms. Apart from conducting a ballet school, he is also a writer, photographer, and a highly talented artist. He was able to star in the movie called spectre of a rose. An extended exhibit with more than 200 objects, sculptures, paintings, prints, and books coming from a private collection will be held in a famous museum.

Covering 50 years is the collection of one couple from Pennsylvania. What it consists of include scores of other historic greats plus the works of a dozen well known painters. For the book collection of the husband it got started when he was still a student of Harvard but he has purchased many of the more valuable objects on installment adding to his collection.

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