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| Laverne Nelson Black 
	American  1887 -1938 
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| Born: | 
Viola, Wisconsin, United States 
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| Died: | 
Chicago, Illinois, United States 
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	| Studied: | 
	
		Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1906 
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| Examples of Work: | 
    Phoenix Post Office Building, Arizona    Treasury Department Building, Washington, D.C.    Stark Museum of Arts, Orange, Texas  
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| Specialty: | 
    Illustrator   Painter   Sculptor 
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	| Style/School: | 
	
		Impressionism
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	| Subjects Known For: | 
	
		American Southwest
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		| BIOGRAPHY: |  
	
		The son of an innkeeper, Black was raised in rural Viola, Wisconsin in the Kickapoo Valley, where many of his childhood friends lived on a nearby Indian reservation. Largely selftaught as an artist, he began to draw and paint ... 	
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