Marshall Bouldin III

Who is Marshall Bouldin III?

Marshall Bouldin III was an American portrait artist from the U.S. state of Mississippi. Examples of his pieces are currently held in more than 400 private and public art collections throughout the United States. The New York Times 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 worked at his family's Mississippi 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 U.S. House of Representatives Jim Wright, Mississippi Governor William Winter, U.S. Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, William Faulkner, Space Shuttle Challenger crew member Ronald McNair, and U.S. Rep. Claude Pepper of Florida,.

Bouldin, a resident of Clarksdale, Mississippi, died at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 12, 2012, at the age of 89.