Billy Morrow Jackson
Born: 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri
Died: 2006 in Urbana, Illinois Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Jackson received an MFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he later taught. Biography: Billy Morrow Jackson was a painter. He received several other government commissions. These include paintings for NASA to record the Apollo space program, and paintings in the state capitol buildings of Olympia, Washington and Springfield, Illinois.
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Web: https://www.champaigncountyhistory.org/single-post/billy-morrow-jackson-champaign-county-and-surrealism
Web: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/billy-morrow-jackson-2416
Web: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1416.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Morrow_Jackson
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On This Island: An Artist View of Martha's Vineyard ISBN: 1582611718 OCLC: 63258491 As the ferry leaves Woods Hole and Martha's Vineyard slowly rises on the horizon, something inside you changes. The air is cleaner, the sky seems more blue and the water clearer. Then you realize it is not the water or the air or the sky that change, but that |