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  • Biography

    Cecil Casebier (1922 - 1996)

    Cecil Casebier was a Texas artist born
    March 22, 1922 in Fort Stockton, and died April 19, 1996 in San Antonio.
    He was known for portrait and still-life paintings and murals, mosaics,
    and stain-glass designs including 18 stained glass windows for St.
    Luke's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the
    University of Southern California, and did graduate work at the
    University of Texas. He served as Faculty Chairman of the Art Center,
    San Antonio, Texas.

    Of his work, Casebier said: "I am searching
    naively for truth; for a personal aesthetic truth, for the truth of
    beauty, enigmatic as it may be."

    EXHIBITIONS
    Texas Annual;
    Tri-State, Amarillo, Texas; California Watercolor Society; Alabama
    Watercolor Society; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Okla.; Springfield,
    Mass. Watercolor Society; Texas Watercolor Society; Butler Art
    Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D. C.;
    Miami, Florida; Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; Whitney Museum
    of American Art, New York; Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado
    Springs; Western Artists, Denver, Colorado; Southwest Artists, Santa Fe,
    N. M.; First Stanford Invitational, Stanford University, California;
    Survey of Texas Painting, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Religious Art of
    Western World, Dallas Museum; Texas Religious Art, Witte Museum, San
    Antonio, Texas; Stained Glass Association of America, Washington, D. C;
    Houston International Exhibition, Houston; 100th Jubilee, Oidtman
    Studios, Lennich, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.; Palace of
    Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock,
    Arkansas; Feingarten Galleries, Chicago, Los Angeles; Nye Galleries,
    Dallas, Texas; El Paso Museum of Arts, El Paso, Texas; Bellas Artes,
    Mexico City; Saratoga, Florida; Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas.

    AWARDS
    Local Artists Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas 1951, 53, 54, 55
    Texas Watercolor Society 1950, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57
    Alabama Watercolor Society
    New Orleans Art Association
    All State General, San Angelo, Texas
    D. D. Feldman, Dallas
    Fiesta San Jacinto Invitation, San Antonio
    Alumni of American Academy in Rome Collaborative Competition
    Terry Art Institute, Florida
    Benesco Stained Glass Competition, Denver
    Longview Art League Exhibition
    Texas Annual 1949, 50, 52, 57, 58,60

    MURALS
    Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio, Texas.

    MOSAIC
    Texas Instruments Bldg., Houston, Texas
    Oak Cliff Christian Church, Dallas
    Temple Beth Yeshurun, Houston, Texas
    Lovers Lane Methodist Church, Dallas
    First Methodist Church, Dallas

    STAINED GLASS
    St. Lukes Episcopal Church, San Antonio, Texas
    Temple Beth-El, San Antonio
    De Mazenod Chapel, San Antonio
    Lovers Lane Methodist Church, Dallas
    Oak Cliff Christian Church, Dallas
    St. Michaels & All Angels, Dallas
    First Methodist Church, Dallas
    First Southern Presbyterian, Austin
    Lackland AFB Hospital Chapel, San Antonio
    Keesler AFB Hospital Chapel, Mississippi
    Wesley Student Chapel, University of Oklahoma
    Tulsa Memorial Christian Church, Tulsa
    St. Andrews Luthern, Houston
    Central Park Methodist, Houston
    Central Christian, Arkansas City
    Catholic Hospital Chapel, Apple Valley, CA
    Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Ft. Stockton, Texas
    Randolph AFB, San Antonio
    1st Presbyterian Church, El Paso
    Temple Emanu-El, New York City
    Lutheran Student Center, Austin, Texas
    Kennedy Memorial Window, St. Math& Episcopal, Dallas
    First Presbyterian, Midland, Texas
    Forrest Heights Methodist, Lubbock, Texas
    St, Andrews Methodist, San Antonio, Texas
    Episcopal Seminary, Austin, Texas.

    PERIODICALS AND CATALOGUES WITH IMAGE REPRODUCTIONS
    Art
    in America Magazine; House Beautiful; Diocese of West Texas
    Publication; Texas Artists Magazine; Life Magazine; Progressive
    Architecture; Art Digest; American Artists; Living for Young Home
    Makers; Stained Glass Ass'n. of America Bulletin; Cushman & Denison
    Mfg. Co. Art Bulletin; Texas Architect 1965 (Feature).
    Represented
    in: American Federation of Art Circuit Exhibitions: 1955 Corcoran
    Biennial; 1956 New Talent in America; 1956 United States Information
    Agency, Far East; 1957 Whitney Exhibition of American Art; 1957 Survey
    of Texas Painting;
    Selected: "New Talent In America", Art in America Magazine 1956.

    LISTED
    Who's Who in American Art
    Who's Who in The Southwest

    Sources:

    "Texas
    Artists: The D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art", by
    Tom Douglas, Dallas, 1955, p. 6, biographical section.

    Contemporary
    Art in the Southwest, catalog for an exhibition of paintings sponsored
    by Stephen F. Austin, State College, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1956.