SFGate: Kent Rupp is Marin festival's Master Artist / Sebastopol painter taught many with his vision of art
Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Allison Byers
Sebastopol painter Kent Rupp sometimes wonders what life would be like if he had taken a different turn in the road.
In high school, Rupp was a less-than-stellar student who had attended nine grammar schools during his first eight years of formal education because of his father's scattered work in those post-Depression years. At Alameda High School, he said, the only classes where he achieved good grades were English and art. By senior year, Rupp had decided to join the merchant marine.