Studio City seaman lauded for unusual painting of his ship
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph article dated March 24, 1961 reads, "Seaman Dennis Stewart, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney W. Stewart, 3900 Carpenter Ct., Studio City, recently won a place of honor for the picture of his ship he painted, and wound up meeting an admiral too. Stewart gained congratulations from Rear Adm. Draper L. Kauffman when the young seaman overcame a lack of artists' materials and produced the picture of the USS Herbert J. Thomas by using bulkhead paint and awning canvas. The painting was in honor of the ship's visit to Nagasaki. It displayed on the ship's messdeck."
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Navy United States.--Navy--Officers Paintings Painters--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Admirals--United States Sailors--United States Ships--California--Los Angeles--Art Studio City (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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