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Edward H. Betts


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Edward H. Betts

Edward H. Betts, American (1920-2008).



Edward H. Betts was a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society,
and was a professor emeritus of art at the University of Illinois. He held 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 Yonkers, 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 and
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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,
including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Portland
Maine Museum of Art.

In addition to this painting, another painting, Rocky Cliff, by this artist is also currently available.

Credit: John Betts, son of the artist.

"Jagged Surf"
Signed lower left.
Oil on board. 13" x 21"

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