biography
pronunciation:
[tohbee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1976)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin, USA. A self-taught artist, he moved to New York (1911) and became a commercial artist and portraitist. He converted to Baha'i (1918), a Near Eastern-based religion, which influenced his ‘white writing’ - a calligraphic technique used in his abstract tempera and gouache paintings, such as ‘Broadway’ (1936). He travelled widely and lived in Seattle, Washington, and Switzerland. |
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