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Harold Bayer

12/23/2021

 
Harold Bayer 
1900-1996 
Toledo, Lucas County 
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Bayer was born in Cleveland, but spent most of his life in the farming communities of northwest Ohio. He began painting a few years after he retired from his job as a typewriter repairman. His memory-inspired works are highly stylized, but often full of details, including, in many paintings, a young girl (named Veda) and her black dog (Pokey). Bayer said of his pictures, "Oh heck, I do these paintings because I like them. The scenes are what I remember of what was good about a simple way of living. Those days people got together to help and to enjoy each other."

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