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ACCORDING to Dick, another expert calligrapher—and he doesn’t think there are many of them left around—would recognize his style immediately. Like Michelangelo’s brush strokes or Rubens’s models, it’s that distinctive.
^“There’s been a new surge in interest in calligraphy but the people who are learning the craft today don’t reach the same level. You can’t if you don’t have teachers to show you the tricks. I was probably the very, very last to have that (at the Zanerian College).”
Dick began his studies in May of 1959 and within six months was
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