Museum project:


Sally, at the museum,asked me to write a brief bio of my dad for a small book  about the artists in Kosciusko County...so I decided to do double duty by adding it here.

Born Washington Don Anglin he had a normal farm grown childhood. One of eight brothers; they were " The Anglin Boys".  His older brothers would not give him a break,
insisting that he was "took to raise". Although they were there  when he was born at home just like them.  When they were old enough to hear of such things they told him he was probably an Italian immigrant. He had black curly hair and theirs was straight. That is why they called him "Wop". At that time it was derisive term meaning"Without Papers". The name stuck his entire life.
Comic strips in the papers were major on his youth. He could hardly wait to leave the farm and become famous and rich
drawing for the "funny papers".
Circumstances intervened and he became the go-to sign painter/artist in Kosciusko County. When the Lakeland  Art Association started he was a charter member.
The new restaurant in my teen years was the Humpty Dumpty.. I watched him paint this huge picture of that nursery rhyme character falling off the wall above the booths.
There are still many of his art works in and around Warsaw.