Poetic Obituaries: Mr. [Martin] Snipper was an artist

and traveler with a storied past: He put himself through art school to become a painter with the Works Progress Administration, taught painting to Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and kept traveling through his retirement, celebrating his 89th birthday in Cuba with his second wife, Betty. At first a painter, he later worked mostly in sculpting, said son Rossi Snipper of Minneapolis.

from San Francisco Chronicle: Martin Snipper, S.F. backer of public art, dies

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