 Complete the following phrase:  As a youth, he was accustomed to the rural landscape and the close proximity of family and relatives. His family was supportive of his interest in art, an interest he attributed to an uncle, his mothers brother, who had been killed in the American Civil War when he was a small child. In his biographical note, he wrote of his Uncle George, unmarried and seems to be the first in the family to develop art tendencies, producing crayon portraits of family members including one of my mother, which had much to do in causing me to turn to art for a life work. His interest in art intensified after a visit to the 