sentences:  Later, he studied at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and the Art Institute in Chicago.In the late 1940s, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy; his teacher, the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, was to have a lasting influence on Embry's work.During his adolescent years in the Chicago area, Embry developed a keen interest in avant-garde literature, music and art.