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Charles Pebworth is an American artist and internationally recognized sculptor.

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- Murrah Federal Building and bomb attack, Oklahoma City, OK Smithsonian Institution catalog: http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=siris_ari_5219

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Charles Pebworth American sculptor and artist. Many of Pebworth's massive sculptural installations exist in public space, corporate environments, galleries, and museums. His work is represented in the Capitol in the State Art Collection of Oklahoma. His marble sculpture, "Lookout from San Bois" survived the 1995 terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. His paintings, art prints, and jewelry have also been well received. For many years, Pebworth provided the Houston Grand Opera with the gold, silver, and bronze sculptural art medallions given to their major patrons. Pebworth served on the Fine Arts faculty of Sam Houston State University for 36 years until his retirement in 1993. He now resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Moody Gallery (see Texas Monthly, Sept. 9-30, 1978) https://books.google.com/books?id=ICwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22Charles+Pebworth%22+gallery+OR+museum+-Alison&source=bl&ots=6kFBJQwtNb&sig=VhqTpoSK4X6uE7hEBZjY4UUqXqA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k0PoVJXWDcWkgwSkkoKIDA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBzgK Cronin Gallery

Harrison Gallery http://www.harrison-gallery.com/charles-pebworth/

Pop Up Art Gallery

Harris Gallery http://www.harrisgalleryhouston.com/Harris_Gallery_Houston/Charles_Pebworth.html

Beeville Art Museum http://bamtexas.org/exhibitionarchives/charlespebworth2003.html

Hyatt Regency, Houston

Charles Pebworth was born in Kinta, Oklahoma in 1926. Of Choctaw descent, Pebworth grew up with a sensitivity to his rich cultural heritage and a love for nature. Growing up in Pawhuska and entering high school in 1941, Pebworth was focused on joining the war effort. He joined the Air Force and by 1945 was a paratrooper. When his service was ended, Pebworth benefitted from the GI Bill. His college education started at Colorado A&M (now Colorado State University). There he met a fellow friend who was going to California to study art, so Pebworth joined his friend to study at the Art Center school in Los Angeles. After a brief period at the Art Center, Pebworth went to Pasadena City College, then Baylor University in Texas for two years as a painting major. He left the university to join the Korean War effort. After his service in 1951, he returned to Oklahoma and studied at the University of Oklahoma. Pebworth left for the University of Houston where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts and later earned a Master of Art from Louisiana State University in 1957. From 1957 until his retirement in 1993, Pebworth taught art at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. From 1958 to 1961, he also taught at the Mexican Field School in Puebla, Mexico. He also served as a guest professor of sculpture at the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony of Del Mar Collete in Corpus Christi, Texas and as a guest professor at the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas.

Pebworth exhibited extensively in one-person and group exhibitions across Texas as well as in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Mexico, and North Dakota. In 1987, he was named Texas Artist of the Year. Pebworth's work is included in many permanent public collections including: the Bobile Art Gallery of Mobile, Alabama; Marshall Field and Company of Chicago, Illinois; Arkansas Art Center; Oklahoma City Museum of Art; and the Astrodome of Houston, Texas.