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ELOY, Arizona, USA--Having painted in obscurity for decades, artist Dully Sheridan was in Italy of all places when an art lover surprised him by singling him out in a crowd. Mr. Sheridan had just finished hanging three paintings in the main gallery at the 2005 Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art--a prestigious, invitation-only art festival which that year brought together 768 artists from 74 countries.
"My son and I were walking back to the hotel when we heard a woman yelling, 'Artiste! Artiste!'" said the painter, telling the story during an interview at his home in this American Southwest desert town.
"We started looking around for someone, and we see that she's pointing at me and running at me with a group of women. They had seen my self-portrait hanging in the gallery and recognized me in the crowd. I turned to my son and said, 'This is going to be fun.'"
The recognition given to Mr. Sheridan at the show in Florence, where he won the celebrated President's Award, is all the more significant because of the style of his paintings. Mr. Sheridan is a classical realist and his vision runs counter to the trend in contemporary art toward abstraction.
He is also unusual in the art world because he is entirely self-taught, and because he speaks explicitly of the influence of spirituality on his work. A member of the Baha'i Faith since 1971, Mr. Sheridan is unambiguous about how Baha'i teachings and principles affect his choice of subjects and themes.
"There is a direct relationship to what I do as an artist and what I believe as a Baha'i," said Mr. Sheridan.
His first big break
Unsuccessful as a young artist in California in the early 1970s, he moved with his family to the Falkland Islands in 1976 to assist...
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