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An unlucky and forgotten Utah painter's life is a lesson on caring for local art.
Some people just can't catch a break. And for some unlucky few, misfortune trails them even after they have shuffled off from their mortal coil.
Some people just can't catch a break. And for some unlucky few, misfortune trails them even after they have shuffled off from their mortal coil. Take William Joseph Armitage, for example. An academically trained artist from London, he relocated to Salt Lake City in 1881, but demand for his skill was limited.
By 1885, Armitage tried his luck in San Francisco, alternately living in town on meager means with his son Arthur or at a cottage adjacent to the old Cliff House resort on Lands End.
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