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  2. Mauricio Lasansky - Wikipedia

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    Mauricio Leib Lasansky (October 12, 1914 – April 2, 2012) [1] was an Argentine artist and educator known both for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking and for a series of 33 pencil drawings from the 1960s titled "The Nazi Drawings."

  3. Prison art - Wikipedia

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    Prison art is unique in several ways. Due to the low social status of prisoners, art made by prisoners has not historically been well-respected. [2] [3] The art, much like the prisoners themselves, is often subject to controls. [4] [5] Art made by prisoners is sometimes valued, [6] or conversely sometimes sought to be actively destroyed. [7]

  4. Phyl Waterhouse - Wikipedia

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    Dowie made a pencil study, one of few surviving from the time, of Waterhouse sitting in the flat before the friends set out across Europe. [ 12 ] Waterhouse found employment to augment Bush's grant money, working as a telephonist and a chauffeur, and continued to take other work throughout her career, part of which, after 1962, was the ...

  5. Ann Adams - Wikipedia

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    Ann Adams drawing a picture, 1972. Ann Adams (1926-1992) was an American artist who, after becoming almost fully paralyzed due to poliomyelitis, re-learned to draw by using a pencil held in her mouth. [1] [2] [3]

  6. Fernando Castro Pacheco - Wikipedia

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    The idea of outdoor schools of art was promoted by Alfredo Ramos Martinéz. The idea centered on the promotion of more liberal methods for art instruction. In 1942, soon after the founding of the school, Castro Pacheco produced his first lithographs and displayed his painting and drawings in his first exhibit at the Galería de la Universidad ...

  7. Chicago gangbangers rage against newly arrived Venezuelan ...

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    Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city.

  8. List of the Great Depression-era outlaws - Wikipedia

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    Pierpont was a Prohibition-era gangster, and friend and mentor to John Dillinger. [2] [10] Adam "Eddie" Richetti: 1909–1938 Richetti was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early 1930s, and both Floyd and he were later implicated in the Kansas City massacre.

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.