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1988


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1986

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Keeling Lassiter lives and works alone in a tiny fifth-floor walk-up apartment above a grocery store on 74th Street in Manhattan. Although fairly well-known in Switzerland where he has traveled frequently over the past several decades, in the United States he has lived an almost marginal existence, rarely emerging from his crowded studio/living space except to see movies and take walks. Lassiter was born of French Huguenot ancestry in New York City in 1926. He studied sociology at Yale University and art education at New York University, and has painted full-time since 1951. He remains, he says, "adventurous and insolent in a parallel world" and pursues his art single-mindedly as a form of "self-reliance, [and as] an avoidance of outside authority."

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.