biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1934)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in West Calder, Lothian, E Scotland, UK. He emigrated to America in 1879 and became a steelworker. An untrained artist, he began painting freight cars and houses, and it was only late in his life (1927) that he started exhibiting his documentary paintings of Pittsburgh. A symmetrically balanced primitive work, his ‘Self-Portrait’ (1929) is considered his most famous painting. |
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