About Don Freeman

  • Biography

    Submitted December 2022 by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher

    Freeman, Don (1908-1978) (San Diego / New York / Santa Barbara)

    Repro. and “Trumpeter’s Path to Art, Writing Told. [Come One, Come All, by Don Freeman: Rinehart] Don Freeman is a California artist and writer who also likes to play hot licks on a trumpet. His early days were spent in the house of Mrs. Blass, who cared for the three Freeman children and another child and planned careers for them, mostly with the aid of tea leaves and a Ouija board. They lived on the border at Chula Vista and later in San Diego where Mr. Freeman worked. Don’s descriptions of Chula Vista and San Diego are heightened by the drawings he has done from memory… Moved to New York....

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