Marshall Bouldin III (September 6, 1923 – November 12, 2012) was an American

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artist from the U.S. state of

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. Examples of his

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s are currently held in more than 400 private and public

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throughout the United States. ''

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'' once praised Bouldin as "the South's foremost portrait painter." Bouldin became the first painter to be inducted into the National Portrait Artist Hall of Fame of the Portrait Society of America. Bouldin was born in

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, a small farming community in the northwest part of Mississippi, near the

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. He worked at his family's cotton farm until he became a professional portrait artist during the 1950s. He painted more than 800 individuals throughout his life, including such notable subjects as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

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, Mississippi Governor William Winter, United States Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi,

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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...

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crew member

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, and United States Representative

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of Florida. Bouldin, a resident of

Clarksdale, Mississippi Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. It is located along the Sunflower River. Clarksdale is named after John Clark, a settler who founded the city in the mid-19th century when he establishe ...

, died at St. Francis Hospital in

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, on November 12, 2012, at the age of 89.

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1923 births 2012 deaths American portrait painters 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Painters from Mississippi People from Dundee, Mississippi People from Clarksdale, Mississippi 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1920s-stub