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Charles Wells

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1935-2017

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  1. Erostratus by Charles Wells, Image 1.

    Charles Wells

    Erostratus, 1963

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    9.75 x 8 in

Charles Wells, a Quaker artist, is a sculptor of wood and marble as well as an etcher of complex mixed intaglio prints. Several years after graduating from Amherst College, he received his first and only essential art instruction with an apprenticeship to Leonard Baskin from 1961 to 1964. In place of study in a traditional art school, Wells chose to learn directly from a master artist, according to the apprenticeship system established in medieval times. As a result of his artistic achievement during these apprenticeship years he won the prestigious Prix de Rome, which granted him a Fellowship to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1964 to 1966. After three years in California and Vermont, Wells returned to Italy, living in the "marble" town of Pietrasanta until 1976.
Since then, Wells has lived, and quietly but steadily practiced his art, on the old family farm in Washington Crossing, Bucks County.
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