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Ron Gorchov (1930-) is an American artist who has been working with curved surface paintings since 1967. . Gorchov's career as an artist began in 1944, at the age of fourteen, when he began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of his fellow students were servicemen returning from World War II who used G.I. Bill benefits to pay for art materials. "A veteran... gave me a paper bag with all his half-squeezed oil paint tubes and a whole bunch of old brushes and he said they'd be good luck." . Gorchov attended the University of Mississippi in 1947 and called it "the most unlikely place I could go. The deep south was exotic.  I went fishing with William Faulkner...but because of the horrific racial problem I was mentally not at all able to think about art." Gorchov returned to Chicago and took both academic and art classes at Roosevelt College and the Art Institute. In 1953, Gorchov came to New York with his wife and newborn son and eighty dollars. The family moved into the Marlton Hotel, across the street from where the Whitney Museum used to be and what is now the New York Studio School.