This new portrait is a very fine painting.

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In 1964, they moved to Iowa City, where Sam did graduate work in fine arts at the University of Iowa, painting during the day and working as a janitor at night.

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Charles A. Hartman Fine Art and PDX Contemporary Art, both recommended to me as standard-bearers, offered fairly conservative painting (respectively, Eva Speer's realist chunks of ocean garnished at the edges with "unfinished" skeins of combed paint, and the twee veggies of Tina Beebe's "Of Gardens" exhibition).

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