ABOUT GEORGE SIMONSON
I was born on the Connecticut shore in 1953. My mother says
I used to cover literally pounds of paper with my drawings.
One day, in the children’s playroom on an ocean
liner in 1958, I was drawing a house the way kids draw a
house. Then the staff art teacher showed me how to draw
it in perspectival fashion—and I had a blinding flash
of illumination as I “got” perspective.
The foolish early years
In grammar school I spent about an hour a day standing
in the hallway as punishment for daydreaming, clowning and
other mischief.
I loved libraries and reading. At age 12, I was by far
the youngest “adult” allowed in the stacks of
the town library—even though I was noisy and had to
be thrown out from time to time.
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