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Remembering MS artist Marshall Bouldin

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, 3:54pm

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Artist Marshall Bouldin

was once cited by the New York Times as "the South's foremost portrait painter."

Source: Southern Expressions, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

He worked on his family's cotton farm

until becoming a full-time portraitist in 1956.

Source: Southern Expressions, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Since then

he has painted the likenesses of more than 800 people, including William Faulkner, Mississippi Gov. William F. Winter, Sister Thea Bowman and Richard Nixon's daughters, Tricia and Julie.

Source: Southern Expressions, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

His paintings have been displayed in the White House

and in more than 400 public and private collections throughout the country according to the Commercial Appeal.

Source: Marshall Bouldin III, A Painter's Journey by Eric Wilson

Source: Marshall Bouldin III, A Painter's Journey by Eric Wilson

Source: Marshall Bouldin III, A Painter's Journey by Eric Wilson

Marshall Bouldin

died Monday at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis at age 89 Nov. 14 2012.

Source: Marshall Bouldin III, A Painter's Journey by Eric Wilson

Officials with Meredith-Nowell Funeral Home in Clarksdale say Bouldin died Monday at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis.

He was 89, according to The Associated Press.

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