Italian-born Francesco Spicuzza was primarily a Wisconsin painter who did portraits, still-lives and local landscapes.  He spent the first part of his life in near-poverty to become a painter.  An eternal optimist, in 1917, the artist reported: “I am happy and my only ambition now is to paint better and better until I shall have reached the measure of the best of which I am capable.” (Spicuzza, 1917, p. 22).  His predilection for beach scenes germinated early: reportedly, the f (showing 500 of 7137 characters).