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 Americana Today
by
William Alan Discount


Port Jefferson, Level 1

Residential Scene
About the Artist

William Alan Discount, born 1929 in Greenport, New York. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts. Illustrated Children's books until 1950, then entered Advertising as an artist and later an Art Director. The last 25 years Free-Lanced from Hauppauge. In 1984 he merged his talent with the computer and started experimenting with digital images.

The result was an ongoing series of striking and realistic visual
interpretations of landmarks and other subjects, primarily as
watercolors.

Shortly before his death in 2007, William Alan Discount developed a series of original art entitled "Americana Today," a modern version of Folk Art.

Port Jefferson, Level 2