Hyacinthe Kuller Baron was born with a gift. At age 9 she was called an art prodigy and enrolled in classes for adults at New York’s prestigious Art Students League school on West 57th Street. She went on to paint commissioned portraits for a who’s who of Hollywood celebrities — Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Martha Raye — and her artwork joined the collections of Huntington Hartford, “Hawaii Five-O” star Jack Lord, Rod McKuen, Malcolm Forbes and others. Actress/comedienne Martha Raye, left, with a young Hyacinthe Kuller Baron in front of the artist’s portrait of Raye. (Courtesy of Hyacinthe Baron and Holly Jane Sutor of Mind Crush Productions)