July 21, 2008
Frank Calloway, 112 year old artist from Alabama
Frank Calloway is a 112 year old artist from Alabama who spends up to 9 hours a day drawing murals sometimes 30 feet long.
He was born on July 2, 1896, and has lived in mental health centers since 1952, when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Details about Calloway’s youth are few. He says he remembers growing up with brothers and, as a “little, bitty, little boy,” playing under the quilts his mother made as if they were tents. He has no known family left and there is no record of his ever being married. He talks frequently about working hard and mentions laying railroad rails, cutting lumber, farming and working for a blacksmith, but there are no records of his life before he entered the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation system.
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