biografia di Francis Blackbear BOSIN (1921-1980)
Birth place: Anadarko, OK
Addresses: Wichita, KS
Profession: Painter, illustrator, muralist
Studied: Oklahoma Univ.; J. Havard MacPherson, Spencer Asah
Exhibited: Festival of Arts, White House, Wash., DC, 1965; Whitney Gallery of Western Art, 1966; Nat. Indian Ann., Philbrook Art Ctr., 1967; Heard Mus., 1967; Wichita Art Assn., 1971. Awards: Grand award, Philbrook Art Ctr., 1959-1963; Waite Phillips Special Indian Artists Award, 1967.
Member: Wichita Artists Guild (v. pres., 1963-1966); Wichita Advertising Assn.
Work: Wichita Art Mus.; Wichita Art Assn.; Philbrook Art Ctr.; Heard Mus., Phoenix; Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, WY. Commissions: sculpture design for city, Kansas Gas & Electric, Wichita, 1969; mural, commissioned by Schafer, Schirmer & Eflin for Farmers Credit Land Bank, Wichita, 1972; painting, Southern Plains Mus., Anadarko, 1972.
Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, gouache, acrylics, charcoal, pencil. Color separator and platemaker for Western Lithograph; illustrator for Boeing. Collection: American Indian artifacts. Research: American Indian in the Great Plains Region.
Sources: WW73; articles in: Life International (1960) & Newsweek; Lilian Westphal, article in: Woche (1972). More recently see: P&H Samuels, 59; Dawn Reno, 23; WW47.