John Wesley was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1928. After high school he held a variety of jobs, while studying at UCLA in the evening until he started working as illustrator in the Production Engineering Department at Northrop Aircraft in 1953. In this period he begins to paint regularly and to think about art. His work was first exhibited in a group show at the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, California in 1958.

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