13 Facts About Fred Beaver

Fred Beaver was a prominent Muscogee Creek-Seminole painter and muralist from Oklahoma.

Fred Beaver had become the All-State football and basketball star player.

Fred Beaver's grandfather was the sub-chief of the Okfuskee town in Alabama named Itshaus Micco, and had moved his town to where Eufaula is today.

Fred Beaver was an important part of the early Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Fred Beaver had attended the Haskell Business College after graduating from Bacone in 1935.

Fred Beaver really had no art training at Bacone while he was there and gave up his art career during the Great Depression and went to serve in World War II.

Fred Beaver helped define traditional Oklahoma Indian art with his style that he created; he started defining traditional painting of the Five Civilized Tribes.

Fred Beaver was one of the first artists to be designated as "Master Artists" of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.

Fred Beaver's works are included in many museums and collections, including the Heard Museum, the Sequoyah Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Philbrook Museum of Art.

Fred Beaver has gone on to win many awards at the Philbrook's annual competitions and has worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for twenty-five years of his life.

Fred Beaver was able to make a living off his artwork full-time and became more aware of the detail that was put into the paintings.

Fred Beaver has been interviewed at the University of Florida for The Southeastern Indian Oral History Project, which was in collaboration with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

Fred Beaver designed three medallions for the Franklin Mint's celebration of the United States Bicentennial in 1976.