![]() ![]() Securing food and shelter was the major focus of our lives. One of Keats’ childhood friends, Martin Pope, wrote this about their shared childhood: These were the years of what is called the Great Depression in America, when a small handful of people made a lot of money but the vast majority of people struggled to pay bills and make ends meet. His family never had enough money for him to go to art school so he had to take different jobs to support himself and his family. Throughout his childhood the young Keats struggled to be an artist. Many years later, as a grownup himself, Ezra Keats realized how difficult it must have been for his father to save pennies and buy these art supplies for him. This is because he had seen many artists struggle to make a living and he didn’t want his son to live in poverty like he himself was forced to.īut despite all his warning to Jacob about starving artists, Benjamin Katz would sometime bring home for his son tubes of paint and inexpensive paintbrushes. The young Jacob could paint and draw wonderful pictures even before he entered school but his father didn’t really want his son to be an artist. ![]()
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