Henry "Mike" Strater was an American painter, and illustrator.
10 Facts About Henry Strater
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Henry Strater was a friend of Ernest Hemingway and other figures of the Lost Generation.
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Henry Strater was known for his portraiture, figurative, and landscape drawings and paintings.
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Henry Strater was born on January 21,1896, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Henry Strater was Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character "Burne Halliday" from the novel This Side of Paradise.
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Henry Strater took some classes at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
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Later they became friends and Henry Strater painted two portraits of Hemingway in late 1922 while still in Paris.
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In either 1952 or 1953, Henry Strater founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine.
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Henry Strater died at the age of 91 on December 21,1987, in Palm Beach.
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Henry Strater is buried at the First Parish Cemetery in York, Maine.