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Biography |
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Born in 1903 in New Orleans |
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Called "Bob" by his friends and family |
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Educated at a private boarding school, then attended the Parsons Institute of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts |
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Married a Radcliffe graduate, Agnes (Sissy) Grinstead |
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Worked on regional Works Progress Administration mural projects |
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Was diagnosed with severe depression and spent three years in and out of hospitals |
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Eventually left his wife and family and lived by himself in an island cabin in order to paint and draw a multitude of species of island vegetation, animals, birds, and insects |
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Died at the age of 62 in a New Orleans hospital of lung cancer |
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