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Cecil Bell
Cecil Bell
Cecil Bell

Cecil Bell

born Seattle, Washington, 1906; died Staten Island, New York, 1970
BiographyCecil Crosley Bell moved to New York City in 1930 where he enrolled at the Arts Student League and studied with Harry Wickey and later with John Sloan who was an important influence. By 1931 he was doing freelance commercial art for Fox Films. In 1936 the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York purchased the first of two of Bell’s paintings for their permanent collection. His work is also included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cooper Union Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of the City of New York among others.

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