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Email us your official website or Let us host your primary web presence. Don Freeman share. Corduroy Add to Cart. This finally occured when his grandmother sent him to Principia High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was already constantly drawing, creating comic-character scenes of his experiences in a kind of graphic diary and illustrated different publications for Principia.

He also played cornet trumpet in different bands. Later he played cornet in jazz bands in San Diego and New York to help earn a living.

After graduating, Don went to an art summer school class in San Diego. There he met Lydia Cooley and they fell in love. Don was kicked out of the class for drawing cartoons of the class drawing instead of the naked model. Although he came up with many of his ideas on his own, his wife Lydia Freeman contributed greatly to his success; indeed, she co-wrote two books with him, Chuggy and the Blue Caboose and Pet of the Met.

She was very influential on her husband's work, as he relied on her for inspiration for his pieces. He would read his work aloud to her as well as any children around in order to gain feedback on a particular piece.

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Lydia too became a well-known artist in her later life. In his autobiography "Come One, Come All! Don humorously admits that of the two, she was the better watercolor artist. When Freeman lived in New York City during the s, 40s, and early s, he was a brilliant illustrator of city life in the best traditions of Social Realism.

His subjects were the actors and actresses of Broadway—from Orson Welles to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne to the man in the street or the charwomen who scrubbed the stage after the actors and the audience went home. Freeman also self-published Don Freeman's Newsstand , a short-lived quarterly magazine, each page of which was an original lithograph.

In , Freeman was recognized by the City of New York for his body of work portraying the city.