[255] Robert MacDonald Graham Jr. (1919-2000) studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute and served as a combat artist in World War II; he was with the KCU/UMKC Art faculty from 1958 to 1975.  Bob Graham’s 1960 portrait of me shows one hand upraised because I thought, when told to lower it, that he wanted me to dunk it in the can used to clean his brushes.  (My earliest pinpointable memory, predating the trip to St. Petersburg by a few months.)

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