Glenn F. Bastian (American, 1890 to 1966)
Glenn Bastian was a native of Gas City, Indiana. Most of Bastian’s paintings are from the 1930′s and 1940′s. He would travel to Mexico often and get bird feathers and then come back to his Gas City studio and do his paintings. He did a lot of bird and landscape paintings…His house is known locally as the Glenn Bastian Spanish House. Since he did not put a kitchen in his house, he ate out. He was known to frequent only two diners in town and he was always seen wearing a hat. He never married, but he had two brothers. He also did some paintings under the name of GB. He passed away in the 1960′s. The Gas City Historical Society has a few of his paintings and also has more in-depth about his history.
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