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"Jim Mickelson (American, 1926-1998)&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\nChildren on the Shore&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\noil on canvas, signed.&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\nPainting: 12\" x 16\"&lt;br&gt;\r\nFrame: 18.5\" x 22.5\"&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\nMickelson was born in Thief River Falls, Iowa on April 27, 1926.\u00A0 A 1944 graduate of Clarion High School, he served the next two and a half years as a Marine in the South Pacific where he first began sketching.\u00A0 After the war, he attended college in Iowa, and then attended the Los Angeles County Art Institute in California.\u00A0 He studied at Mexico City College for a year before traveling to Sante Fe, New Mexico where he joined workshops and eventually began selling his artwork in Taos.&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\nEventually he settled in New England, in Rockport in the late 1960's, and was a member of the Rockport Art Association.\u00A0 \u00A0 He had a gallery in Provincetown on Cape Cod and his works were shown\u00A0 in New York City, Palm Springs, California, Sarasota and West Palm Beach, Florida.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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