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| Life in America 1913-1943 |
| Born to an undertaker and singer and into a family
with a strong appreciation for the arts, Fontaine was encouraged to be find
his career at the earliest age possible. At the age of 13 he decided to be a painter. He
gained his lifelong friend Leon
Hovsepian with whom he painted at the Worcester Art Museum school and then later
at Yale. The Depression, his education at the Worcester Art Museum
School, work with the WPA, and his later education at Yale, were all artistic and life
style foundations that he spent his life overcoming. He often stated that he had to
"unlearn" all he learned at school to become the artist he wanted to be.
See the Worcester, Yale and Tortola pages to watch the
transition. |
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