sentences:  In 1947 Embry decided to devote his life to painting and, for the next 15 years until the early 1960s, embarked on a nomadic artistic career which would take him from San Francisco to New York, to post-war Europe, as well as Turkey and North Africa.Amongst the countries in Europe where he took up temporary residence were Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England and Sweden.Embry had his first Solo Exhibition in Europe at the Heinz Trökes Atelier in Berlin in 1950.