Doel reed biography of martin
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Doel reed biography of martin
As a child he attended the children’s Saturday art classes at the John Herron Museum in Indianapolis. He had a childhood experience where on one of the docent tours he came upon a large painting of a shipwreck with sirens or mermaids in the water around the beleaguered ship (Reed was unsure of the artist, thought perhaps it was a German artist).
However, he thought the water flowing off the shoulders of the women was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. The childhood memory of that particular painting gave him his first interest in the human figure where the round, flowing, monumental female figures in this painting is what he became known for.His original studies were architecture but in 1916 his interest in fine arts led him to enroll in the Cincinnati Art Academy.
His studies were interrupted the following year when he went to France to serve in World War I. He was temporarily blinded when he was