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This article reports on the significance of the creative expression of self-taught artists. Addison Thompson, an architectural photographer, and his wife Lesa Westerman, a photographer specializing in hand color work, purchased and live in a highly personalized space decorated by a self-taught artist. They moved at the five-room Brooklyn, New York railroad flat, situated in a brick and limestone townhouse in the Park Slope neighborhood which is last occupied by Joseph E. Furey, an 83-year-old retired ironworker of Newfoundland ancestry. |