Waldo Peirce

Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, who for many years reveled in blooming the excitement of a bohemian expatriate.

Peirce was both a prominent painter and a Famous colorful figure in the world of the arts. In a forward looking account, he was described as Rabelaisian, bawdy, witty, robust, wild, lusty, protean, lecherous, and luscious. He was sometimes called "the American Renoir." Peirce like said he never worked a day in his life.^{[citation needed]} He did, however, spend many hours every day for 50 years of his sparkle painting yet lifes, figures, and landscapes as capably as hundreds of pictures of his beloved families (he was married four become old and had numerous children). With a mustache and full beard and a large cigar jammed perpetually into his mouth he looked all inch of a cartoonist's notion of an artist. Peirce himself was adamant about one thing: "I'm a painter," he insisted, "not an artist."^{[citation needed]}