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months, learning the art of weaving. And through it all, she paints, though not as often as she would like, still hoping someday for recognition as an artist.
Her father was a commercial artist and she grew up with a pencil or a crayon or paint brush in her hand. She had private lessons and when she was 11 years old, joined the Art Students League in New York City. “In high school, I majored in art. The school system in New York is setup so you can do that. They supply you with oil paints, canvas. You take classes in art history, styles and technique. I was veiy lucky,” Davette recalled.
But after graduation, there was no money to continue her studies. She lived with her father, who had then moved to Washington, D.C., working days and taking classes at the Corcoran in the evenings, and in between, soaking up lessons on lettering, paste up and other aspects of commercial art from her dad. She saved every penny, enough for a return to New York and enrollment in the School of Visual Design. “I studied only fine arts, no commercial art,” she remembered, smiling with satisfaction. It was on a shoe string, a shoe string too short to reach expensive art supplies. But Davette used ingenuity. In
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