Texana watts biography of albert

Texana, painter of People of the World, was born Mary Burger in Abilene, Texas in 1916 to Karl & Fremont Burger.

Taking the name Texana from her grandmother, she was one of the first persons in America to be legally granted a one word name by a superior court judge in Los Angeles, California in 1953.

Texana was known in over 100 countries as the "People's Painter." She was always fascinated by people and their faces.

Texana watts biography of albert

In 1944, she began a series of portraits of twenty heads of state in Latin America. She then went on to paint the portraits of such dignitaries as Egypt's Anwar Sadat, India's Indira Gandhi, and Argentina's Juan and Eva Péron.

She was awarded the People to People International Artist of the Year award in 1974, an organization founded by Dwight Eisenhower.

Texana's efforts to foster world peace and understanding through the international language of art were recognized in 1977 with a nominati