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Convicted Killer Turns Artist in Missouri Prison Art Class
Inside Missouri's state penitentiary an art class for inmates flourishes under a life-term instructor who once faced execution for two murders in St. Louis. Samuel Norbert Reese, freed from death row, leads paintings and studies while wardens note a positive change. His students have held exhibitions, sold works to fund supplies, and earned ribbons at fairs.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
State Penitentiary
Samuel Norbert Reesé
St. Louis
Nash
Reese
David Fitzgibbon
Robert Weaver
City Art Museum
L. R. Burroughs