Warren Boucher
(1922 - 1999)
Warren Boucher was active/lived in Rhode Island. Warren Boucher is known for sailing ship, landscape, portrait.
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Biography Warren Boucher
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The following, submitted October 2004, is from Lorraine Boucher, niece of the artist.
Warren Boucher was born July 5, 1922 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Joseph Boucher and Rosella Maguire Boucher. He only attended school through ninth grade, being interested more in drawing pictures than in academic subjects. According to Warren, his Irish grandmother was the only person to encourage him in his pursuit of art, giving him an easel and telling him to do what he did best.
After leaving school, he worked in the textile mills of northern Rhode Island and continued his art on the side. In 1942, he joined the Army and served in the 83rd Infantry Division in Europe. His Division participated in the Allied advance from
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