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1923
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Born in a lightning storm in Kansas City, Missouri.
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1943-1945
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Services as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps.
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1948-1952
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Under the G.I. Bill, attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
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1953
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Travels to Europe, to England, Italy, Spain and France. After a long stay in Taormina, begins to live and work in Paris.
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1955
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Returns to New York. From then on, shares his time between New York and Paris.
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1963
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Acquires his Broadway loft from Willem de Kooning where he works until December 2000.
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1966
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Travels to Russia.
The Ivory Knife receives the Golden Eagle Award in Venice and is shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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1967
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Awarded the silver medal in painting during the 30th Biennial of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His play, Strike the Puma, is produced Off-Broadway in New York.
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1973
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Receives an honorary Doctor of Humanities from the Lindenwood Colleges in Missouri.
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1982
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Receives the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped [Very Special Arts].
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1983
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Named Commander of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France. Anatomy of a Cloud is published by Harry N. Abrams in New York.
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1994
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His sculpture, Meditation Mandala Sundial, is installed in the Hofstra Museum Sculpture Garden.
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1996
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Receives an honorary doctorate in humanities from Hofstra University.
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1997
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Elected to the National Academy, New York. Receives the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, together with the medal of the City of Paris.
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1998
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Elected an honorary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.
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2000
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Receives the Benjamin Clinedinst Medal from the Artists' Fellowship in New York.
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2001
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Travels to Kyoto.
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2005
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Receives the medal of the City of Lille.
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