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Jane Ziegler moved to Sarasota in 1947 after a successful career as an actress and music teacher. She began studying painting in 1941 and by 1955 had won many…
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Meet Asa Cassidy
It was back about 1989 that I first met Asa Cassidy. Asa had been dead forty-three years. I was walking down an isle approaching Mike Turbeville’s booth at the…
Meet Joy Postle
For over fifty years Joy Postle painted the birds of Florida. the people of Orange County called her the Bird Lady, and, with her thin sharply defined features, pretty face,…
Emmaline Buchholz and the Florida Federation of Art
Florida Federation of Art, first organization meeting, Orlando and Winter Park, April 7, 1927, at the home of Lew Halstead Jerome in Merritt Park. Pictured, the executive board, back row…
Lillian Wells, DeLand
DeLand’s Oakdale Cemetery sits just behind Stetson University and the historical society: a silent archive of the city’s resting, honored dead. Near its center, just next to her parents, lies…
Finding Lost Florida Art at the Chicago Century of Progress, 1933-1934
Imagine how you might feel if national icons like John Trumbull’s painting of The Declaration of Independence or Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware were lost. On a state level,…
Meet the Englishmen
In the early 1950’s, as a student at South Broward High School in Hollywood, Florida, I learned to love the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and A.E. Houseman. It…
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