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ADDISON 
LOOMIS

Underwater Oil Paintings

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A FIRST IN OIL PAINTING HISTORY

Welcome to one of the most amazing achievements in the history of oil painting. What you are about to experience is just a glimpse of the life and art work of Addison Rockwell Loomis, the first man to oil paint submerged underwater.

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"I was forced to wait for them to approach my easel, align themselves correctly." 
 

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"Merely getting an outlined form on the board sometimes took several hours."

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"The statement that they all have distinct and separate personalities may be laughable and certainly challenges some who have not spent the hundreds of hours I have among them in their silent world"

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