MELTZOFF, Stanley

USA (1917-2006)

Last updated: November 6, 2017 at 1:11 am

Pioneer underwater painter; writer; first to observe and document sleeping sharks; artist and journalist for the U.S. military magazine Stars and Stripes during WWII; became a full-time illustrator in 1949; began painting saltwater game fish in the early 1960s.

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Stanley Meltzoff

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