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Wendell Thompson Perkins
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Wendell Thompson Perkins (February 11, 1928 – March 2, 1997), was an American painter born in Boston who died in St. Augustine, FL. His lifelong business partner was Hartley Staley. The subject matter of his paintings included: Maritime scenes, Landscapes, southern African American scenes. The style of his work was primitivist and his primary medium was oil. The primary area where he was active was Florida although he spent a good deal of time in Maine early in his career.
Perkins was adopted by Joel and Martha Perkins and was raised in Castine, Maine. Biographers speculate that the military presence in Castine led Perkins to paint maritime scenes. When asked about where he learned to paint, Perkins replied, "I've always been painting, ever since I was a child. I guess I taught myself." After painting for a few years, Perkins received formal training at the Portland School of Fine Arts in nearby Portland, Maine.
Perkins first experimented with oil paint when seven years old after watching his father and Donald, his older brother, painting landscapes where they lived. Perkins spoke of his first painting: "My first painting was when I was seven and was of a four mast sailing ship, which I copied from a large painting. I used oils on that first painting and it was a horrible looking thing. I sold it to a woman vacationer at Castine for 25 cents and I felt rich."
At age eighteen, Perkins enlisted in the Navy. After two years of service, at age twenty, he enrolled in the Portland School of Fine Arts. There he studied under Alexander Bowers. Throughout his first two years of schooling, he supplemented his GI allowance by working at a fish factory in Portland and by lettering signs.
Perkins was incarcerated for one to five years for writing bad checks at the Reformatory for Men in South Windham, Maine. Perry Hayden, the superintendent at the reformatory, found Perkins to be a lonely boy that did not interact with others. Upon discovering his predilection for painting, he allowed him to paint.
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