I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area & attended public schools. At the age of sixteen I went to study under my uncle Robert J. Lee  a successful artist, in  New York.  I have attended SF Academy of Art, SF Art Institute, and many of the local community colleges. I hitchhiked around the country, worked  as a circus roustabout, a farm/ranch hand, pulled green chain at a lumber mill, and did many different kinds of factory work. I was a founding member of Project One,  a progressive inner city community in a five story building (which now houses SF govt offices.) on 10th and Howard Streets. I have done progressive political work since my teens.  I did illustration on and off since high school. In the seventys some friends from Project One started a plumbing company and needed occasional help. The work was sporadic but supplemented  my illustration income to where I was eating every day. I never stopped making and selling artwork. Today I run a plumbing contracting business and am able to avoid having to think about what kinds of artwork might sell better than others.

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