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Michael DeVore (born 1982) is an artist trained in the classical realist tradition. Michael grew up in Oklahoma City where his step-grandmother Marion DeVore, who had helped found the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts, recognised when he was very young that he had a great talent for drawing. Determined to learn the ways and techniques of the old masters he went to Italy to attend The Florence Academy of Art.
[Art Renewal Centre - Oil on linen, 81.3 x 91.4 cm]