Artists Freeman Boyle and Greenfield share art origins and paths
Freeman began art at age nine in Cherryville and teaches at Gaston College after 30 years in instruction. Boyle, Indiana born, started oils at eight and now paints between piloting for U S Airways and gallery sales. Greenfield, retired IRS official in Ohio, began painting after military service and studied at Memphis Academy of Art, then largely self taught.
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Boyle
Indiana
North Carolina
Piedmont Airlines
U.S. Airways
Cherryville
Gaston College
Sacred Heart College
Belmont
East Carolina
Greenfield
King Mountain
IRS
Ohio
Memphis Academy of Art
Among the Greats Local artists honored alongside Timberlake and Nichols
Freeman recalls writing to Bob Timberlake as a teen and receiving encouragement to keep painting. Timberlake advised submitting to local shows. Boyle notes the camaraderie of artists lifting each other, easing the solitary nature of art. Reporter Amanda Memrick can be reached at 704-869-1839.
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Bob Timberlake
Ward Nichols
Freeman
Timberlake
Boyle
Amanda Memrick
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Blue Ridge Realists Inspire Quiet Rural Calm at Hickory Museum
Hickory Museum of Art explains that the Blue Ridge Realists draw on rural life and 20th century realist Andrew Wyeth. Influences from tonalism impressionism and modern regionalist schools shaped their individual styles. The works evoke simpler times with quiet emotion.
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Hickory Museum of Art
Blue Ridge Realists
Andrew Wyeth
Bar code inventor N Joseph Woodland dies at 91
N Joseph Woodland co created the universal product code died at his Edgewater New Jersey home at 91 He helped IBM develop UPC widely used in check out lines and received honors including the National Medal of Technology in 1992 He described drawing bars in sand to imagine wide and narrow lines.
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Joseph Woodland
Edgewater
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IBM
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UPC
National Medal of Technology
George H.W. Bush
New Jersey
Susan Woodland
New York City
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Atlantic City High School
Drexel University
Philadelphia
Drexel
Bernard Silver
Food Fair Supermarket
Register
Silver
Miami
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