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| Duane Unruh was born in 1931 in Newton, Kansas. He grew up in Clay Center. Former Univ. of Kansas football end and Center High School football coach. Began modeling wax figures
from which bronze casts could be made in about 1971. Learned the process from Gus Shafer, Kansas City sculptor. | Source:
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Kansas City Star (Apr. 4, 1976).
| | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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