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After graduating from high school in Taos, Michael spent the following summer in Woodstock, New York studying with Vladimir Bachinsky. It was Vladimir's inspiration and enthusiasm for art which sparked a deep passion in Michael toward the great masters of the past and too the importance of great draftsmanship. Inspired by the great masters, in particular the masters of the High Renaissance, on Vladimir's recommendation, Michael at the age of eighteen left his home in Taos, N.M. for New York City to attend the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Within a month of his arrival Michael showed so much promise as a draftsman that at the request of his instructor Gustav Rehberger he was granted a full scholarship. Passionately interested in the human figure, Michael was constantly drawing from life, when unable to draw from live models he spent all his free time studying canons of proportion and human anatomy. These masterful drawings done in his late teens show all the struggle and determination of a young artisan learning to master his craft. The comprehensive collection of Michael's youthful figure studies is considered by many to be a masterpiece in its own right. Click this site for more.