(1916-1992) Edward Bearman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a young child, he developed a love of steam engines and locomotives which would become the focal point of his artistic career. Until the early 1950s Bearman worked as an engineer on passenger and freight trains. As a means of relaxation, he began to paint steam trains, working mostly in acrylics on surfaces measuring 20" x 30". When he retired from rail service in 1971 he dedicated his time to painting. Bearman's visits to the piers of New York, where he first encountered the world's great ocean liners, inspired a passion for the ships that would occupy the rest of his painting career. He began to paint ships in the category of 30 gross registered tons, starting with the Great Eastern, and painted ships of all the major lines, including the Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic of the White Star Line and the great Cunarders Lusitania, Mauretania, Aquitania, and Berengaria. Of particular renown was his painting of the Normandie, a painstakingly detailed 36" cutaway that revealed her vast, luxurious interior. Bearman's works were owned by the Titanic Historical Society and are in the collections of the Marine Museum at Fall River, Massachusetts.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking