The following, submitted August 2005, is from the artist.

Edward Donald Storms was born in Brady, Texas in 1924. Hewas a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force and flew over Germany in WWII. He attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, and soon became an award-winning photographer.

He then moved into the field of contemporary art, first as a painter and then as a sculptor. In 1961 he began an apprenticeship with Fort Worth sculptor Charles Williams.

Special awards:
1964 Delgado Museum, New Orleans. Purchase prize and awarded one-man show
1965 Pearl Brewing Company Sculpture Award, Austin, Texas
1965 Rex J. Howard Sculpture Award, 28th Annual Exhibition of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Tx.
1968 Honorable Mention: Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Art
1968 Tenth Annual Eight State Exhibiton, Oklahoma City, Ok., Recommended for purchase

ASSOCIATION EXHIBITIONS
1960 Texas Fine Art Association
1961 Texas Fine Art Association (citation award)
1961-62 Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
1962 25th Annual Tarrant County Exhibition, Fort Worth Art Center
1962 Fourth Annual Exhibit of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma City
196382nd Annual Exhibit, San Francisco Art Institute
1963Fifth Annual Exhibit of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma City
1964 Wichita Falls Invitational, Wichita Falls, Texas
1964 Artists of Gulf States, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, La. (Purchase Prize, Jubjub Bird - bronze)
1965 28th Annual Tarrant County Exhibition, Fort Worth, Tx (received Rex J. Howard Sculpture Award)
1965 54th Texas Fine Arts Spring Jury Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Tx. (recipient ofPearl Brewing Sculpture Award)
1966 Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1967 30th Annual Tarrant County Exhibition, Fort Worth Art Center
1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
1968 Tenth Annual Eight State Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Ok.
1969 Past Jurors Invitational, Oklahoma City Art Center
1971 Thirteenth Annual Eight State Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Ok.