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Edward Carpenter Bearden

Edward Carpenter Bearden (1919 - 1980) was active/lived in Texas.  Edward Bearden is known for Portrait painter, commercial art, graphics.

A Dallas native, Edward Bearden became a painter, teacher, graphic and commercial artist who was especially noted for presidential portraits and of actors in the movie Giant, when the movie was being made in Marfa, Texas. 

He moved with his family to St. Louis when he was ten years of age.  There he studied three years in a children's program at the City Art Museum.   He returned to Dallas where he attended high school and then received his baccalaureate in art at Southern Methodist University, (1941), working under Jerry Bywaters and Elizabeth Walmsley.

When Bywaters became director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Bearden became his assistant, a position he held for ten years, including a 1944 leave of absence to study under Otis Dozier and Boardman Robinson at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

In 1948 Bearden joined the art faculty at Southern Methodist University where he taught four years.  He was active therea   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2033 characters.]  Artist bio

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