"On the Road to Rudy"

"On the Road to Rudy"14 x 11" print on canvas by Pat Lappin From age 10 to 14, Lappin studied painting on Saturday mornings with a high school art teacher. After high school, she attended SMS in Springfield, Missouri for 4 semesters, taking every available art course, intro to design, color, but she only wanted to learn to paint like the works she had seen at the St. Louis Art Museum and that was not happening. Pat met her husband, married and became a mother. She was

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