Debra Ann Campbell Teare (July 11, 1955 – November 10, 2018)Debra Teare
'' Logan Herald Journal'' as reprinted on Legacy.com. Accessed May 24, 2019. was an American artist, a founding member of The International Guild of Realism, and "One of the most successful ''

trompe-l'œil ''Trompe-l'œil'' ( , ; ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. ''Trompe l'oeil'', which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into ...

'' painters today.James A. Metcalfe (November 16, 2007)
Oil Painting: Debra Teare: Updating Trompe l'Oeil For Today
, ''Artist Daily''. Accessed 31 Aug 2011. Before switching to oils, Teare spent the first portion of her career "large

photorealistic Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...

drawings in black and white" charcoals. Teare was born to Don Spencer Campbell and Julia Picket Campbell and grew up in the Cache Valley of

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...

and studied Illustration at

Utah State University Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah ...

(though dropped out of the course).Obituary
DebraTeare.com. Accessed May 24, 2019Lance Frazier (April 23, 2010)

''

The Herald Journal ''The Herald Journal'' is a newspaper in Logan, Utah, United States, and serves the Cache Valley area of Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho which includes Cache County, Utah and Franklin County, Idaho. It is published three times each week ...

''. Accessed November 26, 2013. She began her career in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

and lived the final years of her life in

Providence, Utah Providence is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,075 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Providence lies south of Logan on former State Route 238. ...

. Her work usually consisted of precise photo-realist paintings of still life objects. She married artist

Brad Teare Brad Teare (born 1956) is a Utah-based landscape artist working in oils, acrylics, and woodcuts. Teare was educated at University of Idaho and Utah State University. He subsequently moved to New York City where he freelanced for ''The New York ...

in 1983.Couple-Creators: Brad and Debra Teare
by Theric Jepson, ''

A Motley Vision A Motley Vision is an online multi-author blog featuring criticism of the Mormon arts, LDS literature and film in particular. It was launched by William Morris on June 2, 2004. It won the Association for Mormon Letters award for criticism in ...

'', May 18, 2009. Accessed August 31, 2011. She had one daughter, Ashley.

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Artist bio
at the International Guild of Realism

at the Atlanta Art Gallery Utah State University alumni American Latter Day Saints Painters from Utah Trompe-l'œil artists People from Cache County, Utah 1955 births 2018 deaths American women painters 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters {{US-painter-1950s-stub