Article: Michael Dailey, artist, teacher; Northwest painter taught generations of UW students; Obituary.(NWWednesday)

Byline: Jack Broom; Seattle Times staff reporter

It sounds like a paradox, to be sure. But Michael Dailey, a prominent Seattle painter and teacher who died Sunday at 71, insisted he fell in love with art not because it came easy to him, but because it did not.

"I always took art in school," Mr. Dailey said. "I was fascinated by it ... because I did not understand it. Other subjects were easier for me, but art was the one thing I couldn't figure out."

His remark to former Seattle Times art critic Robin Updike was relayed in "Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place, Selected Works, 1965-2007" distributed last year by the University of ...

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