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About The Artist: John Urbain

John Urbain (1920 - 2009) was born in Brussels, Belgium. He moved with his parents to Detroit in 1922. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941, Urbain was an infantry corporal whose skill as an illustrator led him to create army training graphics and murals. Wounded during the war, he later depicted the pathos of war in his own artwork. Urbain studied art at Black Mountain College in North Carolina on the GI Bill. His most influential teacher was...