Arts: Duco

Frederick William Lawrence wearied of painting with a brush seven years ago. He had won some water color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures.

Results were excellent. Lawrence found he could draw fine lines by...

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