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Fred Lynch

Fred Lynch is a professor of illustration at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an active sketcher with a long time affiliation with Urban Sketchers.

City Sketchbook: This Boston House Turns Curious Heads

Fred Lynch

Surrounded by streets of big brick buildings and accessible only through the alleyway, this very slender wooden house in Boston attracts affectionate glances but offers little explanation.

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Flashback: MoMA’s Artist As Reporter Competition

Fred Lynch

In 1940, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced an unusual contest, “The Artist as Reporter,” with $1,750 in prizes (about $37,000 when adjusted for inflation). It was co-sponsored by the soon-to-debut PM newspaper as “a search for artists who could report the news with brush and pen.”

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