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Birth
1924 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
Lived/Active
Wyoming
Self portrait - Harry Andrew Jackson - Self Portrait
Often Known For
sculptor-western figure, horses
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Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism.
He was raised in a family where his mother ran a cafe near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes or to hang out at (showing 500 of 6932 characters). |
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