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| WILLIAM OKTAVEK 1953 |
Painted window screens is an old Baltimore original folk art that began in 1912 by William Oktavek
a Czechoslovakian immigrant who painted fruits and vegetables on his small grocery store screens to show his produce and move
the real items inside, out of the hot sweltering sun of the Baltimore summer. It worked so well that his customers
from all the ethnic neighborhoods of Canton, Highlandtown and Fells Point, populated by other immigrants
from Poland, Germany, Italy, Ireland and many others of old Europe began requesting paintings of
scenes from the old countries. Thus began the famous Red Roof Cottage that made the art famous. It worked so well that that
Will was able to complete his training at the Maryland Institute of Art and begin an art shop painting and restoring works
of art throughout the State yet continue to teach and paint the screens of Baltimore.
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