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Blue Sky
Painter
Male
Born
1938
Age
75
Blue Sky is the legal name of an American painter and sculptor best known for his mural, Tunnelvision.
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Blue Sky.
CHILDHOOD
1938
Birth
Born in 1938.
TEENAGE

1954
16 Years Old
In 1954, his first foray into art won him a national poster competition, two years before he graduated from Dreher High School.
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TWENTIES

1964
26 Years Old
At the Springs Mills Show in 1964, in which over 700 artists participated, he was judged "best of show" by Henry Geldzahler, then curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum.
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1966
28 Years Old
Upon moving back to Columbia in 1966, Sky worked as a draftsman and conceptual artist for Wilbur Smith & Associates before returning to USC for graduate school.
THIRTIES
1970
32 Years Old
In 1970, he graduated, earning a Master of Education, because the university had not yet been certified to award a Master of Fine Arts.
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1976
38 Years Old
Tunnelvision may be regarded as Sky's masterpiece in the classical sense, because the mural is both part of his juvenilia and the work which has earned him the widest recognition, starting with an article in the February 1976 issue of People Magazine.
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FORTIES
1981
43 Years Old
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Blue Sky Gallery opened in 1981, and it has displayed his artwork exclusively since 1989.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2000
62 Years Old
In 2000, Sky was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina's highest civilian state honor, for his contributions to the arts - particularly, for painting the state's first large-scale public mural in 1975.
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