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Early Life, Family and Training Stephen Pace enters the world on December 12, 1918, in Charleston, Missouri. His early years are shaped by the rhythms of a family business; his parents operate both a farm and a grocery store. The impulse toward visual recording surfaces early. In the fourth grade, a teacher hands him a sketchbook, providing the first formal tool for his developing observations. The landscape shifts as his family moves
to New Harmony, Indiana. By age 17, the focus turns toward technical discipline. He begins formal studies in Evansville, Indiana, working under Robert Lahr. These sessions focus on the mechanics of the human form through anatomical studies and the fluid application of watercolor painting. War interrupts his trajectory. After serving in the United States Army during World War II and sustaining injuries while stationed in Europe, Pace…