Don Bar-Claw and His Mugged Portraits in Scottsdale
A humorous profile of Don Bar-Claw, an artist famed for quick sketches of people’s faces. He has moved to Scottsdale, filling his walls with mugs bearing caricatures of Arthur Godfrey General MacArthur Groucho Marx and others.
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Don Bar- Claw
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Scottsdale
Arthur Godfrey
General MacArthurs
Groucho Marx
Don
Don Caricature King of Frontline War Runs
Veteran artist Don, famed for burlesque roots with the Marx brothers and work with the Ziegfeld Follies, spent 101 weeks overseas in World War I and has continued drawing on front lines. In the current conflict he spent months in the South Pacific and became the first entertainer into Korea, sketching 09 caricatures in Hengyang, China under danger from overhead bombs.
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Don
Bob Hope
Joe E. Brown
South Pacific
Korea
San Francisco
al Jolson
Army
Hengyang
China
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