The following information was submitted by the artist's son: James Kevlin Jr.:
James Courtney Kevlin (1900-1986) was born in Pittsfield in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills. As a boy, he picked pond lillies -- later an occasional subject of his paintings -- on nearby Pontoosuc Lake with his mother, and sold them door to door.
His father, John, and two of John's brothers, Matthew and David, helped unionize the General Electric plant in Pittsfield, and David ran for mayor on the sociali (showing 500 of 5226 characters). |
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