Summertime 40" x 17.5"
Edward H. Betts is a member of the National
Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society, and is a professor
emeritus of art at the University of Illinois. He holds a BA degree in history
of art from Yale University and an MFA in painting from the University of
Illinois. Born in 1920 and brought up in New York City, he attended summer
sessions at the Art Students League from 1935 to 1942, and as a full-time
student there from 1946 to 1948, joining the University of Illinois School
of Art and Design in 1949.
Betts has been represented in virtually every important national exhibition,
including major surveys of contemporary American painting at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, as well as other national exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum, San Francisco Art Museum ad the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His paintings have been included in
international exchange exhibitions in Japan, Brazil, England, Mexico, Australia,
and Canada.
He has received more than seventy exhibition awards, is a three-time winner
of the First Altman Landscape Prize at the National Academy of Design and
seven awards at the American Watercolor Society, including two Silver Medals
of Honor. His work is represented in sixty public and corporate collections,
such as the Fogg Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Portland (Me.)
Museum of Art, Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company, Continental Grain Company,
Prudential Life Insurance Company, and Tupperware International.
In February 1983 American Artist Magazine featured Betts as one of
fourteen "living legends" in American Watercolor. He has written Master
Class in Watrcolor, Creative Landscape Painting, Creative Seascape
Painting and Master Class in Water Media, a revision of the
earlier Master Class.
Betts is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American
Art.
Summertime 40" x 17.5"
Ice Fall 21" x 29"
In the Summertime
(triptych) three 36" x 36"
Coastal Horizons 31" x 44"
Public and Corporate Collections
Fog Museum of Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
National Academy of Design, New York City
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, California
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
William A. Farnsworth Library and Museum, Rockland, Maine
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa
Davis Art Gallery, Stephens College, Missouri
University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles, California
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Irving Trust Company, New York City
Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, New Jersey
Continental Grain Company, New York City
United Virginia State Planters Bank, Richmond, Virginia
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey
Tupperware International, Orlando, Florida
The Southland Corporation, Dallas, Texas
McDonald's Headquarters, Oakbrook, Illinois
First National Bank, Boston, Massachusetts
Transco Energy, Houston, Texas
Central Trust Bank, Jefferson City, Missouri
Casco Bank and Trust Company, Portland, Maine
United States Information Agency, Art in the Embassies Program
Hollister Corporation, Libertyville, Illinois
Angus Chemical Company, Northbrook, Illinois
North American Rockwell, El Segundo, California
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio
Lincoln National Life Insurance, Fort Wayne, Indiana