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- Don Erickson - Brief Bio: Architect AIA; architecture student 1947-48 University of Illinois. Private practice since 1951. Richard Erickson, chief draftsman, 1954-1992; partnership with Dennis Stevens, 1962-1992 (Erickson & Stevens, Inc.). Work includes houses, Indian Lakes Resort (Bloomfield, IL) Coconut Cove Hotel (Negril, Jamaica) and in Des Plaines Jefferson-Pearson Building, 1st National Bank, Mall. National awards and publication. Lecturer 1969-72 North Illinois University, De Kalb.
I am sorry to read of Shirley's afflictions.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I was re reading an old letter of Shirley's from December 1992 when she still lived at Farwa Farm in Wautoma, WI.
I have the 2 prints of the picture shown that I purchased from her earlier that year. I remembered her telling me of finding a dead hawk or falcon along side the road and taking it home to be put in her freeze. Whenever she wanted to paint it she would just have to take it out. When she painted a still life of fruit she would take bites out of the backside of it then continue to paint.
We have a lot of pleasant memories of Shirley, her paintings, her horse and her farm.
Marc Mierle