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The Art of Painting

Stanley Kubrick and Johannes Vermeer try to see eye-to-eye.

By Barrie Potter & Wesley Allsbrook
September 9, 2014

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Wesley Allsbrook is an award-winning illustrator living and drawing in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, was high school valedictorian, speaks three languages, rides horses, and is currently composing her wordless memoir. You can find her work here:

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