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Product Description Painter Samuel Butnik now lives in Oberlin, Ohio. He lived previously in New York, Taos, New Mexico, England, France and Spain. His paintings are in private, corporate and museum collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Atkins-Nelson Museum, Ashland University, Oberlin College, Bowdoin College, Alcan Aluminum Corp., T.R.W. Corp., All Tile Corp., National Steel and Copper, and others. While visiting London in 1955-56 he bought an old English gas mask carrier to hold his India ink, pens and sketch pads. Thus armed he sketched his way through England, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Spain and Sweden. With pen and ink, Butnik brings particular places alive. The drawings and his recollections of the trip are packed with memories that many of us can share and all can enjoy. "I stayed a week in Ambleside and climbed the hills, my knapsack with ink and quill pen on my back." "On to Copenhagen. 1 took the ferry. They had a great smorgasbord. I ate for the entire trip." About the Author Elizabeth McClelland has published numerous articles on the visual arts from 1965 to the present in "Art in America", "Craft Horizons", "Early America", "Art News," "House Beautiful," "The Cleveland Plain Dealer," "The Akron Beacon Journal," "Threads," and many other periodicals. In 1995 she founded "Ohio Artists Now," an organization devoted to publicizing the work of Ohio artists. She has written ten monographs about contemporary artists working in Ohio and was editor of NOVA (New Organization for the Visual Arts) News, and a contributing editor for the WCLV Fine Arts Radio Guide, in Cleveland. In 1985 she wrote and produced "Contemporary Sculpture in Cleveland" a video program for the Cleveland Public Schools. She is a recipient of the Critics Award from the National Endowment for the Art, the Writer's Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a fellowship from Huntington Hartford Foundation, and a scholarsh