WILLIAM E. DWYER
Louisiana, 1904-
Bayou landscape. Signed and dated lower right "W.E. Dwyer '65".
Oil on canvas board, 18" x 24". Framed 20.5" x 26.5".
William (Bill) E. Dwyer was largely self-taught, did not become an artist until he was about 50 years old. He was perhaps the most colorful person that one might ever meet. He claimed that when someone bought a painting from him and hung it on their wall back home that when neighbors would come over and mention the painting, the buyer wouldn't discuss the painting, but instead would say something like "yeah, but let me tell you about the guy who painted it." Dwyer said that what he was selling wasn't the painting, it was a story, the story about meeting him.

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