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Hubert Shuptrine

Hubert Shuptrine (1936 - 2006) was active/lived in Tennessee.  Hubert Shuptrine is known for Portrait, figure, genre.

Shuptrine at first wanted to become a veterinarian but changed his major after observing a studio art class in college, and graduated in 1959 from the University of Chattanooga with a bachelor's degree in fine arts painting.He earned numerous awards as an abstract oil painter in the 1960's and taught himself watercolor painting during an extended family vacation to Maine, in 1970.  From then on, he began chronicling the South and its people in images rendered in watercolor.  He traveled back roads, becoming the chronicler of  the Old South and its threatened way of life.  He collaborated with the Southern storyteller James Dickey in the 1974 book publication  Jericho: The South Behold, and published another book Home to Jericho, in 1987.

About watercolor painting he said: "It is often hit-and-miss.  I have startovers and failures. I fact, I estimate that nine out of ten end up in file thirteen.  And some paintings are pure acciden   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12422 characters.]  Artist bio

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