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Birth
1928 (New York, New York)
Death
Lived/Active
New York
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frontier and space genre, illustration
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Best known for his skill with pencil in detailed drawings of western
art subjects, especially mountain men during the fur trade era, Paul
Calle was born in New York City.
In 1947, he attended Pratt
Institute at age nineteen and was much taken with the figure work of
Thomas Hart Benton. He also learned woodcut techniques from Lynd
Ward and the effect of sinewy lines from Ben Shahn. Ever-working
in black and white until he became a painter of western subjects, he
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