About the Artist: William Alan Discount, born in Greenport, New York. Served in USMC 1945-1948. Graduate School of Visual Arts. Illustrated Children's books until 1950, then entered Advertising as an artist and later an Art Director. The last 25 years has Free-Lanced from Hauppauge. In 1984 he merged his talent with the computer and started experimenting. The result was an ongoing series of striking and realistic visuals of landmarks and other subjects. WAD recently developed a series of original art entitled "Americana Today". A modern version of Folk Art.