Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, who for many years reveled in living the spirit of a bohemian expatriate.
Peirce was both a prominent painter and a renowned colorful figure in the world of the arts. In a futuristic account, he was described as Rabelaisian, bawdy, witty, robust, wild, lusty, protean, lecherous, and luscious. He was sometimes called “the American Renoir.” Peirce taking into account said he never worked a day in his life.[citation needed] He did, however, spend many hours all day for 50 years of his activity painting yet lifes, figures, and landscapes as without difficulty as hundreds of pictures of his beloved families (he was married four times and had numerous children). With a mustache and full beard and a large cigar jammed perpetually into his mouth he looked every inch of a cartoonist’s notion of an artist. Peirce himself was adamant more or less one thing: “I’m a painter,” he insisted, “not an artist.”[citation needed]
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