14 Facts About Bert Seabourn

Bert Dail Seabourn was an American expressionist painter, known for his stylized and nonrepresentational neo-expressionist artist.

At the age of 5, Seabourn began to create cartoons, a passion he retained through his high school years.

Bert Seabourn attended McCamey school from first through sixth grades before moving to Alma, Arkansas, and subsequently to Van Buren.

Bert Seabourn began working for Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, where he would maintain a position for twenty-three years.

In 1961, Bert Seabourn graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Certificate of Art.

Bert Seabourn joined the Navy in Oklahoma City, in November 1950 after he noticed friends being drafted at the start of the Korean War.

Bert Seabourn left for San Diego in March 1951, leaving behind his wife who was expecting their first child, Connie.

Bert Seabourn later became the art director for the Navy's monthly magazine for two years before being transferred to Pearl Harbor.

At Pearl Harbor, Bert Seabourn was surrounded by artists, journalists, photographers, and writers, who were all shipmates in the Sincpack Fleet.

Bert Seabourn's painting style evolved over the span of his education.

Bert Seabourn began with cartoon-style works at a young age and kept this style through his high school years.

Abstract expressionism became the style for which Bert Seabourn was to be known.

Bert Seabourn was inspired to pursue American Indian subjects after a visit to the Indian Annual, a juried art show at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum of Art, but he wanted to try a different approach than the Flatstyle art that was then popular.

Bert Seabourn was an active part of the Native American art world until the passage of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act in 1990.