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Hand Colored Charles Beckendorf 25/30 Doe and Fawns. In great condition with no<br>significant issues. Rare, hand colored, low edition number. 12" x 15" framed.<br>Charles Beckendorf grew up in the small South Texas town of Mathis. After<br>attaining a Fine Arts Degree at the University of Texas in Austin, Beckendorf<br>and his family moved to Los Angeles, California where Beckendorf worked as an<br>illustrator for Howard Hughes and Walt Disney. In the early 1960's, Beckendorf<br>moved his family back to Texas and did illustrations for Texas Parks and<br>Wildlife and Harry Jersig at Lone Star Beer. In the 1960's while living in<br>Houston, Beckendorf introduced his pen and ink pointillism drawings as prints to<br>the market and they became a huge success. Beckendorf moved to Fredericksburg,<br>Texas in the mid 1960's and opened a small gallery on Main Street in 1971.<br>Beckendorf was commissioned by the Houston Museum of Natural Science to paint a<br>13' high x 144' long mural of Africa for the African Hall, which took him almost<br>six years to complete. In 1972 and 1973, Beckendorf rented the 100,000 square<br>foot Astro Hall in Houston, Texas and held the largest "Artist and Art Dealers<br>Market" ever known showcasing artists from Texas, other states in the United<br>States, and many other countries. In the 1980's, Beckendorf published four large<br>coffee table books of his paintings and drawings, titled "Images of Texas" and<br>opened the largest one-artist gallery in the world at 16,000 square feet. He<br>also published another book for the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986, titled<br>"Charles Beckendorf / Texas". Five-term Mayor of Houston, Texas, Kathy Whitmire<br>proclaimed October 1, 1986 Charles Beckendorf Day. Beckendorf originals hung in<br>Governor Ann Richards' office during her governorship from 1991 through 1995.<br>Beckendorf published his sixth book titled "Charles Beckendorf Texas Wildlife"<br>in 1992. Beckendorf was also chosen for two Texas non-game Stamp & Prints,<br>American Kestrel in 1988 and Road Runners in 1995 and for the State of Texas<br>Turkey Stamp & Print in 1995. Charles Beckendorf's art has been collected by<br>prominent Texans and Texas families, as well as "those that wish they were" for<br>decades.<br>tw228
