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Paradise, Phil
| Last Name: | Paradise |
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| First Name: | Phil |
| Dates: |
*1905 (Date of Birth)
*1997 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Born in Ontario, Oregon, he was raised in Bakersfield, California. In the 1920s, he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and worked for Paramount Studios and taught art at Chouinard and Scripps College. He was known for his ability to sketch from memory of his travels and produced a book of hundreds of India ink sketches from which he painted for years. His early works were city and desert landscapes in representational style, but from the 1940s, his work became more stylized. |
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1701.20 (Print, Black Stallions, 1941)
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