 E. W. Bearman is primarily known as Edward W. Bearman
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  As a child Edward W. Bearman developed a love of steam engines and locomotives that became the focal point of his artistic career. Until the early 1950s, Bearman worked as an engineer on passenger and freight trains. He began to paint as a means of relaxation, and his initial works were of famous and lesser-known steam trains. He retired from the rail service in 1971 and dedicated his time to painting.
On visits to the piers of New York, Bearman encountered the ships that fueled his new passion for the great ocean liners such as the "France", the "Queen Mary", and the "Queen Elizabeth."
He painted ships in the category of 30 gross registered tons, starting with the "Great Eastern", to the turn of the century with the "Titanic", the "Olympic,"and other great White Star liners as well as the Cunarders "Lusitania", "Mauretania", "Aquitania", "Berengaria".
Many of his paintings were in the collection of the Titanic Historical Society and on display at the Marine Museum at Fall River, Massachusetts.
Source:
Roger King Gallery of Fine Art
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Biography from Roger King Fine Art, A - G:
| Edward Bearman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a young child he developed a love of steam engines and locomotives, which would become the focal point of his artistic career. Until the early 1950s, Bearman worked as an engineer on passenger and freight trains. As a means of relaxation, he began to paint steam trains, working mostly in acrylics on surfaces measuring 20" x 30".
When he retired from rail service in 1971, he dedicated his time to painting. Bearman's visits to the piers of New York, where he first encountered the world's great ocean liners, inspired a passion for the ships that would occupy the rest of his painting career.
He began to paint ships in the category of 30 gross registered tons, starting with the "Great Eastern", and painted ships of all the major lines, including the "Titanic", "Olympic", and "Britannic" of the White Star Line, and the great Cunarders "Lusitania", "Mauretania", "Aquitania", and "Berengaria".
Of particular renown was his painting of the "Normandie", a painstakingly detailed 36" cutaway, that revealed her vast and glorious interior. His works were owned by the Titanic Historical Society and are in the collections of the Marine Museum at Fall River, Massachusetts.
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