Debra Ann Campbell Teare (July 11, 1955 – November 10, 2018)Debra Teare
'' Logan Herald Journal'' as reprinted on Legacy.com. Accessed May 24, 2019. was an American artist, a founding member of The International Guild of Realism, and "One of the most successful ''

trompe-l'œil ; ; ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a Two-dimensional space, two-dimensional surface. , which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving p ...

'' painters today.James A. Metcalfe (November 16, 2007)
Oil Painting: Debra Teare: Updating Trompe l'Oeil For Today
, ''Artist Daily''. Accessed 31 Aug 2011. Before switching to oils, Teare spent the first portion of her career "large

photorealistic Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can b ...

drawings in black and white" charcoals. Teare was born to Don Spencer Campbell and Julia Picket Campbell and grew up in the

Cache Valley Cache Valley ''( Shoshoni: Seuhubeogoi, “Willow Valley”)'' is a valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States, that includes the Logan metropolitan area. The valley was used by 19th century mountain men and was the site of th ...

Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

and studied Illustration at

Utah State University Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public university, public land grant colleges, land-grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah, United States. Founded in 1888 under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts as Utah's federal ...

(though dropped out of the course).Obituary
DebraTeare.com. Accessed May 24, 2019Lance Frazier (April 23, 2010)

'' The Herald Journal''. Accessed November 26, 2013. She began her career in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

and lived the final years of her life in

Providence, Utah Providence is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,218 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Providence lies south of Logan on former State Route 23 ...

. Her work usually consisted of precise photo-realist paintings of

still life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...

objects. She married artist Brad Teare in 1983. She had one daughter, Ashley.

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Artist bio
at the International Guild of Realism

at the Atlanta Art Gallery Utah State University alumni American Latter Day Saints Painters from Utah Trompe-l'œil artists People from Cache County, Utah 1955 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American women painters 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters {{US-painter-1950s-stub