George Brehm's Childhood Drawings
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Click play to listen to a story about George Brehm's earliest drawings.
"George Brehm started his art career at an early age. He would later tell an interviewer that, as a small boy, he would take slate shingles from construction sites around Noblesville and draw on them with chalk. His favorite subjects to copy were the female acrobats on circus posters around town. When the workers later found the shingles, George said they didn’t mind the theft, but (quote) They were appalled that a 13-year-old boy should draw a woman’s legs (end quote)."
This file appears in: The Brehm Collection
The Brehm Collection
The Hamilton East Public Library has acquired an interesting collection of artwork over the last eighty years. Beginning with its first Brehm works donated in the 1930s, the Hamilton East Public Library now has a number of works by the Brehm…