Art and cars #7 - Solved! Gary Cooper's 1930 Duesenberg Tourster

[Ray B.]

Who is he, and what car can he be associated with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.
One point for the artist, one for the car.
Rule of this puzzle is: you identify the artist, you have one week to find the car. After that, the hunt is opened and anyone can rob you of your second point.

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[Tuckeroo]

Carroll Shelby?

[Ray B.]

Did he paint or sang (outside of the bathroom), acted, wrote poems, novels...?

[max]

Generation of the 1890s?
American?
Ernest Hemingway?
If so, the Bugatti in Garden of Eden?
Let's have a "yes" for the first line, at least!

[Ray B.]

I think te "Erbas rule" applies here. So I'll answer only one question. You're a lucky man: I've decided to answer your second question, and the answer is YES.

[max]

Doubly lucky, since I haven't the foggiest what the Erbas Rule might be.  Fascinating chairs, though.

[ImpishGrin]

Doubly lucky, since I haven't the foggiest what the Erbas Rule might be.

You could always search the forum. I'll spare you this though: The Erbas rule states that there's only one guess per post allowed. Therefore you can't for example ask for the country, make and year at once. Or name 5 companies and ask if any of them is correct.

This rule was named in memory of this thread: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=2420.0

[Otto Puzzell]

...the stuff of AutoPuzzles legend. 

[max]

Much obliged

[Arunas]

Ludwig van Bethoven?

[Ray B.]

In what year do you think Ludwig was born, Arunas?
Or do you believe that photography was invented in the 18th century?

[Allan L]

In what year do you think Ludwig was born, Arunas?
Or do you believe that photography was invented in the 18th century?

Damned clever, those 18th century Germans 

[Ray B.]

Fascinating chairs, though.

The chairs may roughly give an indication of where this man was born.

[Otto Puzzell]

Is that John Ford?

[Ray B.]

John Ford was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1894.
This is not John Ford.
So this answers max's first question: he is not of the generation of the 1890's.
And he is an American.

[erbas]

I think te "Erbas rule" applies here. So I'll answer only one question. You're a lucky man: I've decided to answer your second question, and the answer is YES.

LOL 

I am making history 

[ImpishGrin]

LOL 

I am making history 

Allow me to notice that you've already made it almost one and a half year ago

[Ray B.]

Time to move this one up.

[Ray B.]

All right, this one seems tough.
Upgraded to 2 points. And a clue, an answer to one of max's question:
He's not Ernest Hemingway, but there is a double connection between him and Hemingway.

[Ray B.]

One clue isn't enough?

They also were close friends.

[ImpishGrin]

Maybe Waldo Peirce?

[Ray B.]

Not Waldo Peirce.
Remeber that when I speak of art, I mean all the arts, not especially painting.

[neilshouse]

F. Scott Fitzgerald?

[Ray B.]

Fascinating chairs, though.

The chairs may roughly give an indication of where this man was born.

Maybe those chairs only speak to me but... they don't fit with Scott Fizgerald.

[ImpishGrin]

I have no idea what you mean with the chairs 

Apart from the fact that they look native american (is it the correct politically correct term for red indians?) to me. But the guy doesn't look like one.