Artist Luke Buck
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~story and photos by Bob Gustin
rowing up in a family of artists, Luke Buck remembers creating pictures from his earliest days. “I thought everybody painted,” he says with a chuckle. He grew up in Indianapolis, where his father, mother, three brothers and a sister, as well as his grandmother, were also artists. Now 79 and living on Prince’s Lakes, just north of the Brown County line, Luke and his wife Coleen spent years on the road, travelling to outdoor art shows all over the United States, before settling down at their lakeside home and Luke’s working art studio. He figures he has completed about 5,000 paintings in his life, but now has slowed down to 40 or 50 a year. Still, he works at it every day.
36 Our Brown County • July/August 2020
