View from the White House

As gigs go, getting an invite to paint the White House Christmas card is pretty great. "I received a call last February out of the blue," Maine artist T. Allen Lawson told us. Next thing he knew, Lawson, who lives in Rockport, was on the Truman balcony with his easel. (It wasn't the first time he'd been to the White ... (Full article: 939 words)

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