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An example of work by Edward Carpenter Bearden
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  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 thereafter in various
activities which included private portrait commissions; owning and
operating an advertising agency; serving as a founding director of the
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts; and painting for his own
enjoyment.
His works were reproduced in the magazines Ford Times and Humble Way.
Bearden died in Dallas in 1980.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists
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Biography from ARTexas:
| A Dallasite, Edward Bearden studied at Southern Methodist University
(where he later taught) and at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts
Center. He showed in the Texas General, Dallas Allied Arts,
Annual Texas Print Exhibition, and with the Southern States Art
League.
In 1955, George Stevens, the director of the movie “Giant” commissioned
Bearden to make character sketches to aid him in casting the movie.
Bearden’s work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.
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