You Are an Artist
Jon Gnagy was a young artist who completed drawings on stage while describing his techniques.
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"One of television's first instructional shows, "You Are an Artist", hosted by Jon Gnagy, was a series of brief (fifteen-minute) filmed drawing lessons, syndicated nationally for over ten years. I first saw the program in the 1950s, and it was influential in my decision to make Art my life's work. Gnagy (rhymes with 'leggy') was nearly a caricature of what an 'beatnik' artist was 'supposed' to look like (stocky, with short black hair and a goatee, wearing plaid short-sleeved shirt, and occasionally, a beret), but his technique in drawing was ex..."
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No recordings are known to survive of this series.
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Jon Gnagy was a young artist who completed drawings on stage while describing his techniques.