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美國馬里蘭州一只名叫山姆的狗很喜歡畫畫，而且在主人訓練下成了畫家，目前山姆已有畫作22幅，售出的作品最高售價達1700美元。據主人介紹，山姆是偵探犬和牧羊犬的雜交品種，四年前被主人收養打算訓練成專職服務犬。但是在訓練過程中，主人發現了山姆的繪畫天賦，便對其進行專門訓練，于是才有了現在被美國繪畫界熱捧的“狗畫家”。山姆的主人表示，山姆的抽象派繪畫作品在紐約的很多美術館都風靡一時，很多人還大老遠從芝加哥專程趕來購買山姆的畫作。
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Paintings done by a dog called Sam are selling for up to $1,700 in Maryland, USA. |
Using the lush surroundings of his home town of Eastern Shore, Maryland as his muse, Sam's paintings are attracting a loyal art world following.
Some of his 22 paintings - done using a tailor-made paintbrush held in his mouth - have sold for up to $1700 (￡1,045).
"Sam is a regular renaissance dog and his abstract paintings are all the rage with the hip New York galleries," says Mary Stadelbacher, Sam's owner.
"He loves his painting and would happily carry on for hours if I left him to it.
"He loves to work in a variety of colors and layers his paintings with darker shades first and then moves on to lighter ones later."
Mary, who runs Shore Service Dogs, in the United States took in six-year-old Sam four years ago as a rescue dog.
"He had been bounced around a couple of dog pounds, so I couldn't have that," says Mary about Sam, who is a bloodhound, sheep-dog cross.
"I took him in and intended to train him up as a fully fledged service dog."
However, soon after Mary took Sam in she was struck down by a botched operation that robbed her of the use of her right hand for a time.
"I never completed Sam's training because of my rehab," says Mary.
"So in the end I decided to keep him on to help me around the house."
Painting al-fresco in the summer and by the heat of a bright fire in the winter, Sam the painting dog is a pooch for all seasons.
"Using his specialized training as a house-help dog, combined with my amateur art background, Sam is a fully trained artist," explains Mary.
"He takes the paint-brush mouth piece and will approach the canvas and begin painting on the simple command of 'paint'.
Inspired to teach Sam to paint after seeing a spate of painting animals, Mary and Sam help to keep Shore Service Dogs centre open with the money made from the art sales.
"I saw dolphins painting and elephants painting, so I thought why not a dog?" explains Mary.
"He has been exhibited in swanky New York galleries such as Denise Dibro's studio and art collectors have bought his work from as far a field as Chicago.
"We even had one woman buy her dog one of Sam's paintings as a birthday present.
"He is quite a unique abstract artist."
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