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John Cowan Templeton

John Cowan Templeton (1880 - 1958) was active/lived in Indiana, Illinois.  John Templeton is known for Dunes landscape painting, post impressionism, sign painting, teaching.

Templeton, John Cowan   (1880-1958)

"A Vision Uniquely His Own,"
An Interview with Jean Templeton, Daughter of the Artist.  (Excerpt):

John Templeton seemed to have the artistic bent from birth. Born to Scottish settlers in Pennsylvania in 1880, he began to draw as a child.  He became a house painter at 14 but practiced his artistic skills when he scraped the paint from old buckets and created his pictures on old window shades.  He studied art at West Virginia University and traveled to San Francisco, Mexico and the Panama Canal, before returning home to marry his hometown sweetheart, Elizabeth Boyer in 1908. 

The couple came to the new city of East Chicago where Inland Steel had set up a plant in the city’s Indiana Harbor section. Templeton painted the fancy gold script on tavern and doctors’ offices and in 1917 began working the late afternoon shift at Inland. He would come home and sleep for a few hours and then head out to the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6390 characters.]  Artist bio

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