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Blaine Gibson
Didier Ghez
DIDIER GHEZ: When and where you born? I think it was in Rocky Ford, Colorado, on February 11, 1918. Is that correct? BLAINE GIBSON: That’s right. DG: When did you become interested in art? BG: As long as I can remember… I became interested in art when I was living on a farm four miles from Rocky Ford, Colorado. A child gets bored at four or five, so I did things to entertain myself as a child, before I was able to get out and help in the fields. My mother was a very kind and generous lady and would kind of watch what I would do. That was actually encouragement from my viewpoint. And she would let me take the newspaper and pick up the barber scissors, which are the only kind of scissors I had, and I would cut out silhouettes of the various animals around the farm — that would be pigs and cows and horses and even birds, and rabbits that I would see running through the yard. And she would actually pick up a lot of my mess, but she would save the little animals just so that they would be separate. I have no idea how good they were. […]

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Source type Book Series
Volume 13 Chapter: 26
Published
Subject date 2009
Language en
Document type Interview
Media type text
Page count 30
Pages pp. 435-464

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Inserted 2014-11-25