Arnold Turtle - Artist Info

About Arnold Turtle

  • Biography

    The following biography comes from the web site:
    http://www.paletteandchisel.org/p&c/p&c_history.htm

    Turtle was born in Birmingham, England. As a young man, Turtle was intensely
    interested in musical composition, and he financed his studies in music by
    selling his paintings. He soon realized that musical composition did not
    assure recognition or financial reward, so he entered the world of commerce.

    In 1922, he joined his relatives in the United States, where he worked as an
    accountant. Turtle found that he could not ignore his growing artistic urge,
    and he decided to study fine art, attending facilities that offered weekend
    and night courses at the Art Institute of Chicago and The Chicago Fine Arts...

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