Bennet norrbo biography of donald
Bennet Norrbo was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Bennet Norrbo's work has been offered at auction multiple times.!
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My friend Bennet Norrbo died recently, and I can't quite get over it. I grew up on the street in Portland where he lived with his mother Marguerite. He took care of her his entire life. She had a complicated way of doing it where she used mostly one hand.
I couldn't figure it out.
When I got older I studied art, and that's when I began to be interested in Marguerite's son's paintings. Bennet Norrbo had worked for a while as a commercial artist in LA, but it didn't satisfy his soul's true ambition - to be a fine artist.
So he came home to stay, and just painted - ALL the time. There was a back room in his mother's house that he stored all his stuff in, stuffed floor to ceiling with his canvases.
Hans Becker was a German postwar and contemporary painter, born in , died Known for his impressionist style of paintings.He showed me his overflowing file of reference photos and magazine clippings. In the eighties he was excited about a technique he was using with acrylics, underpainting. He described to me in minute detail how he accomplished effects like the one in the painting here, "Artist with Mu