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Revere F (Wistey) Wistehuff

Revere F. (Wistey) Wistehuff (1900 - 1971) was active/lived in New York, Illinois.  Revere Wistehuff is known for Domestic figure and genre illustration art, children at play, patriotic themes.

"Peoria's Norman Rockwell" Wistey

Frank Wistehuff was a talented Peoria upholsterer who worked for Schleicher & Son Furniture in the 1890s. He and his wife Bertha lived in a humble home at 722 Greenlawn St. In 1900, their only child, Revere, was born.

Little did they know then that he would become one of the most important commercial artists in American history.

Young Revere attended Blaine Grade School and then Manual Training High School in 1914. Friends described him as driven, hated to be turned down, walking too fast to be seen and always eating cheese.

He was a very talented musician. His instruments included the piccolo, flute, saxophone and clarinet. He played in all the youth bands and eventually the Peoria Municipal Band and Hoffman's Orchestra. To earn money during high school and college, he played for the silent pictures at the Apollo Theater.

But Revere Wistehuff's real passion was art, and Manual enabled his talent to flourish when   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4672 characters.]  Artist bio

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