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John Brock Lear Jr

John Brock Lear, Jr. (1910 - 2008) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  John Lear Jr is known for Figure, portrait and landscape painting, military artist.

Obituary from the Chestnut Hill Local newspaper Website, dated September 25, 2008

John B. Lear Jr., 98, of Chestnut Hill, a widely known local artist, died Sept. 17 at Chestnut Hill Hospital. He had been a resident of the Springfield Residence in Wyndmoor for the past two years. Mr. Lear's oil paintings, watercolors and drawings are in private collections in the United States and abroad and in the permanent collections of the Detroit Museum, the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center in Clearwater, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Reading Museum and the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, with which he had been associated since its opening in 1940. His work was displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In Chestnut Hill, his paintings and drawings were seen often at the Hahn Gallery and at Woodmere.

Born and raised in Chestnut Hill, the son of John Brock and Helen James Lear, Mr. Lear attended Chestnut Hill Academy where he showed an early talent for art. He sa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5997 characters.]  Artist bio

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