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- My father dabbled with water-color paints most of his life. However, with a family of six to feed, his artistic abilities were placed on a back burner while he earned a living. When my father turned 65 he began a new hobby: oil painting. He bid on painting lessons at a local fund-raising auction and won. He learned fast and created many beautiful paintings. Each person in our family had our favorites or wanted copies of them.
When my father passed away in 2000, he left many of his paintings to family
and friends. However, before each person received his or her painting, a
copy-negative was made for each painting. Since I am the historian for my family I now have an archive of 4x 6 photograph prints of my father's paintings,
including a history of each painting and whom it belongs to now. I also have
two original paintings and one print on linen. Most of the paintings are posted on my brother's web site at http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~sclarke/painting.htm.
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1926 - 2000 (74 years)
