Back in 1976 I was teaching Commercial Art at the Montgomery County Joint Vocational School (MVCTC) and Bill Combs, the principal of Arcanum High School, where I graduated from, and a member of the Darke County Bicentennial Committee came up with the idea of asking me to do a portrait of General Marquis de Layfayette, who served as a volunteer in the Continental army in the American Revolution.The Darke County Bicentennial Committee, on behalf of the county citizenry, will present the portrait of the French general to the people of France at the July 5 celebration at the Darke County Fairgrounds. Jacques Dirck-Dille, consul general of the French Ambassador, will be in attendance to accept the portrait for the people of France (shown in the color photo).
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I used to do a lot of oil paintings. Three of the largest were 12 feet long and 4 feet high. Two hung in a school and one in a church.
I'm impressed. Today you would have been called a multimedia artist
All of this was how I began doing for myself and not because of my name and relationship to President Lincoln.
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