"The old story of the boy who is chained to a piano two hours every Saturday before he can play football applies to WILMER RICHTER, except that he wasn't interested in football; he wanted to be an artist. His father, an ardent lover of music, was bringing up five children to play Beethoven at home for him, and Wilmer loved art so much that he became a good pianist in self defense. He was drawing landscapes and copying other artists from the age of eight. A native of Philadelphia, he studied there and in Europe, has been in advertising, and now lives and teaches in Florida. "

(Bio taken from March 1953 issue of The Ford Times)