A story from Just The Fur Of Us
Tales From the Thousand and One Monkeying Nights
How Monkey June Painted the Portrait of the
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A story from Just The Fur Of Us
Tales From the Thousand and One Monkeying Nights
The famous abstract-expressionist painter who
went by the sole name of June was a chimpanzee in Chicago. (Her
favorite snack was Windsor Newton cobalt blue.)
A noted critic had proclaimed her the Jackson
Pollock of the primate world. At the zoo in Chicago, where she
lived and had her studio in a special cage, her flamboyant smears
fetched up to fifteen-hundred dollars.
