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Line 20: ==Life and education== Gussow was born May 8, 1931, in New York City but grew up in Rockville Centre, NY.<ref name="Cotter">Cotter, Holland. "Alan Gussow, 65; Painted and Protected Nature." ''New York Times''. 7 May 1997. Print.</ref> He took art classes at the Pratt Institute before graduating from Middlebury College in 1952 with a degree in Literature. The following year, while studying painting at Cooper Union,<ref name="Gray">Gray, Lyle. ''Alan Gussow—An Overview''. New York: Babcock Galleries. 2006.</ref> he was awarded the [[Prix de Rome]]. Only 21 years old, he was the youngest ever to have won the award at that time.<ref name="Cotter" /> By the time he left New York to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1953 to 1955,<ref name="Gray" /> Gussow had learned printmaking from [[Stanley William Hayter]], and was already heavily influenced by [[Paul Klee]], [[Arshile Gorky]], and [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]].<ref name="Sawin">Sawin, Martica. ''Alan Gussow: A Painter's Nature''. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2009.</ref> In 1956, Gussow married [[Joan Dye Gussow|Joan Dye]], who was then a ''Time'' magazine researcher<ref name="Sawin" /> and later a nutritionist and chair of the nutrition department at Columbia Teacher's College.<ref name="Gray" /> Together, they made a home with their sons in the Hudson River Valley,<ref name="Sawin" /> where they eventually became avid organic gardeners, incorporating into their home garden a method of biodynamic double digging championed by [[Alan Chadwick]].<ref name="Gray" /> Balancing his passion for art with teaching jobs, writing, and endeavors to save the environment, Gussow made yearly painting trips to [[Monhegan Island, ME]] and kept a studio in his New York home.<ref name="Sawin" /> He died from cancer May 5, 1997, in Piermont, NY.<ref name="Cotter" /> | |||