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

Submitted by David D Dempsey, January 2004

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.