YOU TUBE VIDEO dealing with a visit to a museum and an encounter with an artists work

I will be turning seventy in a few weeks and reaching this stage in my life I find myself looking back and thinking about three teachers of art who took a problem kid and gave him direction, a sense of achievement, and a professional career in art. This letter of thanks is being offered posthumously to two of those teachers Ed Fischer and James Walker. The third William Gallagher I have been able to thank personally after many years.

 Each of these men had served in World War II, had earned there degrees on the GI bill and because of there experiences in that war I believe brought a special maturity and caring to there chosen profession. Small things like having a cup of coffee with them in their office, being invited to there homes and seeing shelves of books lining there walls,  having oil paints and canvas available, or a printing press in the classroom because of there efforts and hearing them talk seriously about art served to be my bit of good fortune in life's lottery. I have had many teachers of art over the years but these were the best. I hope my years as a professor of art and my success as an artist which began through there efforts has paid back some of what they did for me. 

WILLIAM NICHOLS