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Stephen (Steve) C Elliott BIOGRAPHY
1943 Colorado - 2021. Known for: Wildlife, landscape and figure painting.
Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution. Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper,... Read full biography
Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution. Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper, crayons, paint. His father had studied art under Grant Wood, the artist who painted the famous... Read full biography
Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution. Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper, crayons, paint. His father had studied art under Grant Wood, the artist who painted the famous "American Gothic". As a senior in high school, Elliott was hired to do drawings for Marquette University's Engineering Magazine which, that year, won national awards. Consequently, Elliott received a... Read full biography
Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution. Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper, crayons, paint. His father had studied art under Grant Wood, the artist who painted the famous "American Gothic". As a senior in high school, Elliott was hired to do drawings for Marquette University's Engineering Magazine which, that year, won national awards. Consequently, Elliott received a scholarship to Marquette where he studied pre-med. "I really didn't know what I wanted to study. I loved art, but I didn't think one could make a living as an artist and my father never encouraged me because I suppose he wanted me to have a 'real' job,"... Read full biography
Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution. Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper, crayons, paint. His father had studied art under Grant Wood, the artist who painted the famous "American Gothic". As a senior in high school, Elliott was hired to do drawings for Marquette University's Engineering Magazine which, that year, won national awards. Consequently, Elliott received a scholarship to Marquette where he studied pre-med. "I really didn't know what I wanted to study. I loved art, but I didn't think one could make a living as an artist and my father never encouraged me because I suppose he wanted me to have a 'real' job," says Elliott. At about this time his father became the publisher of National Wildlife, and for... Read full biography
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Becoming an artist was not a childhood aspiration of Steve Elliott's, but rather an evolution.
Throughout his childhood, Elliott was exposed to all the tools of an artist's trade - pencils, paper, crayons, paint. His father had studied art under Grant Wood, the artist who painted the famous "American Gothic".
As a senior in high school, Elliott was hired to do drawings for Marquette University's Engineering Magazine which, that year, won national awards. Consequently, Elliott received a scholarship to Marquette where he studied pre-med.
"I really didn't know what I wanted to study. I loved art, but I didn't think one could make a living as an artist and my father never encouraged me because I su...But wait, there's more...
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