Artist, John Paul Strain: The Last Man Standing

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John Paul Strain Texas, where he and his wife Nancy have raised a family of four in the comfort of lone star pace and personality. One of the art market’s most successful and popular painters since 1991, his background is decidedly diff erent from contemporaries like Don Troiani, Mort Kunstler, and Dale Gallon. Another irony, “My father actually wanted me to be a baseball player,” said Strain during a recent appearance in Gettysburg.1 “I was his baseball hobby in high school. I actually counted my equipment in my senior year of high school and I had over a hundred bats, a pitching machine with 400 baseballs, thirty pairs of cleats and twentyfi ve gloves. I went to Florida State with the promise of a full ride scholarship in 1975, but there was a coach-