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Habits are formed early. So it seems reasonable to think that young people on field-trips or accompanying adults and who enjoy the experience will form a life-long habit of seeking out art and other museum galleries in the decades of their lives to come.
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Each new generation discovers Mathias J. Alten (1871-1938), who made Grand Rapids his home, rather than to move to one of the bustling cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago or NYC. His parents came from the western border of German first. He joined them at age 17 (1888). Thanks to the collected Alten paintings by a Michigan donor to GVSU, there are now dozens (of his lifetime 3000) of paintings on permanent display on the ground floor and the next floor of the university's downtown Grand Rapids campus in Building E.
This photo shows a statue of the painter in the prime of life with tools of his trade, on his way to or from a location for him to portray in oils on canvas.
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