Mickey Walker, the "Toy Bulldog," used to be famed for the wicked left hook that made him middleweight and welterweight king of the '20s. Now he has shifted hands, changed to a gaudy right. The old master has become an artist, a painter of genuine oil paintings.
Mickey's first (and presumably last) one-man show was held last week in Manhattan. On display were 15 canvases that one anonymous critic called "a new kind of primitiveĀthere's never been nothing like them before." Mickey painted them after hours in his Elizabeth, NJ. saloon. All are...
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