The artist exhibited unusual artistic talent at an early age. While his fellow 5-year-olds were drawing stick figures, the young artist was drawing detailed illustrations of the Mayflower in full rigging – being torpedoed by German U-boats. Thankfully, his subject matter matured and he moved to painting.
Raised in a small coal mining town in Appalachia, the budding artist could not afford expensive paints, so he used his ingenuity and made his own version of paints out of coal dust, berries, dirt and spit.
Passing up art scholarships to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Ivy School of Professional Art, our artist’s career turned out to be one of federal service after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dan Mihalko
13106 New Parkland Drive,
Herndon, Virginia
Phone: (703) 435-8604
E-mail: lawmanpi@aol.com
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