Name Francis Whitaker | Role Artist | |
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Books The Blacksmith's Cookbook: Recipes in Iron, My Life as an Artist Blacksmith |
Francis Whitaker (1906 – October 23, 1999) was a blacksmith in Carmel, California and, later, an artist-in-residence at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, CO.

He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts and died in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

In 1995, he received the Colorado Council on the Arts Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1997, he received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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