Philadelphia
In Philadelphia the family first lived on South Beulah St. in a row house with an outhouse. Across the street was a store with glass show windows. When he was about 11 he saw workmen painting the name of a new business on the glass and decided that he wanted to do that. He later saw workmen painting an advertisement on a billboard. Art and calligraphy became his life passion. He took classes at the Graphic Sketch Club in So Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Fleisher Institute. After a few years he also went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to study. He may also have studied at the school of the Art Museum, later the Philadelphia College of Art.
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Famous quotes containing the word philadelphia:
“I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)
“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
—Cleveland Amory (b. 1917)