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...artist who has survived this gauntlet and is now coming into his own is Princeton-educated William Kienbusch, 42, now showing at Manhattan's Kraushaar Galleries. The surest sign of his arrival: the fact that U.S. museums now own 18 of his colorful semi-abstract paintings of the Maine coast, seven of them purchased in the last year alone...
...Kienbusch's artistic urgings began early. "When I was a kid and blew out the candles on the birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things...