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Francis Beaugureau BIOGRAPHY
1920 Chicago, Illinois - 2001 Scottsdale, Arizona. Known for: Aviation, figure, western genre, animal.
Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled The Indian Wars in Arizona, 1846-1886. In Chicago, he took classes at the Frederic Mizen Academy... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled The Indian Wars in Arizona, 1846-1886. In Chicago, he took classes at the Frederic Mizen Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent most of World War II as a B-17 pilot in England documenting his experiences with realistic paintings of aircraft in combat. After the War, he worked as a... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled The Indian Wars in Arizona, 1846-1886. In Chicago, he took classes at the Frederic Mizen Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent most of World War II as a B-17 pilot in England documenting his experiences with realistic paintings of aircraft in combat. After the War, he worked as a commercial artist and portrait painter; he also became a consultant to the United States Air Force, creating art programs and a USAF museum. In the 1970s, he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona. Beaugureau has also painted many landscapes, working in the field... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled The Indian Wars in Arizona, 1846-1886. In Chicago, he took classes at the Frederic Mizen Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent most of World War II as a B-17 pilot in England documenting his experiences with realistic paintings of aircraft in combat. After the War, he worked as a commercial artist and portrait painter; he also became a consultant to the United States Air Force, creating art programs and a USAF museum. In the 1970s, he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona. Beaugureau has also painted many landscapes, working in the field with camera to record details and watercolors to capture the mood. One of his subjects is Canyon de C... Read full biography
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Born in Chicago, Francis Beaugureau became a painter of western scenes including Indian figures and genre. A folio of oil paintings of his in the Valley National Bank Collection of Phoenix are titled The Indian Wars in Arizona, 1846-1886.
In Chicago, he took classes at the Frederic Mizen Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent most of World War II as a B-17 pilot in England documenting his experiences with realistic paintings of aircraft in combat. After the War, he worked as a commercial artist and portrait painter; he also became a consultant to the United States Air Force, creating art programs and a USAF museum. In the 1970s, he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Beaugureau has also painted many landscapes, working in the field with camera to record details and watercolors to capture the mood. One of his subjects is Canyon de Chelly.
Source:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West and Contemporary Western Artists
Bernadette Hollowell, Note to AskART, January 2005Biography from the Archives of askART
He lived in Scottsdale, Arizona for 47 years (1954-2001), maintaining a studio on Chapparal Road. Beaugureau created a series of thirty paintings, named The Indian Wars in Arizona 1846-1886. He thoroughly researched his subject matter, and produced one of the most historically accurate records of the state's history.
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Newspaper article. Information provided by R.D. June. Date correction about how long he lived in Scottsdale by the artist's daughter Nana B. Hamlin.