Burnette G Pletan, World's Fastest Artist
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Burnette Pletan (playt-un) b.8/24/1910 - d.3/21/1991), the self-styled "Fastest Painter in the World".
Pletan started painting in 1932 after an artist visited his parent's farm, and Pletan decided he could be a painter himself. Self-taught, Pletan said (or possibly joked) that when he started painting he did not know that artists had special brushes, so he used regular house-painting brushes for his art. Whether a joke or not, that style of brush was the implement Pletan used the most, as demonstrated in two videos in the 1980s:
