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Edward M Corbett

Edward M. Corbett (1919 - 1971) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Illinois.  Edward Corbett is known for Abstract often minimal expression.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Edward Corbett was a painter in an abstract style of poetic landscape inspired by the various locations where he lived and traveled. He often titled his paintings for the location that inspired them, but he did not do literal depictions. He was especially noted for subtle changes of effect in colors and surfaces.

Edward Corbett was the son of an army officer and spent his youth in the southwestern United States as well as in the Philippines and Ohio, and in 1937, began art studies at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Corbett was in the army and merchant marine during World War II and after a year in New York, returned to California to teach at San Francisco State College and later at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1951, he moved to Taos to teach art and two years later took a job at Mount Holyoke College for nine years.

During this time, he spent his summers between Taos, New Mexico and Provincetown, Massachuse   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3527 characters.]  Artist bio

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