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Birth
1906 (Brooklyn, New York)
Death
2000 (Port Clyde, Maine)
Lived/Active
Maine/New York / Italy
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highly abstract painting, marine, figure and landscape
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William Thon was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings. He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition. He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific.
He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a (showing 500 of 4086 characters). |
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