Biography

(American, 20th Century)

David Teague is an internationally known oil portrait and cityscape painter. The Texas-born Teague made his home in Israel from 1976 until 1984. He received his Masters Degree from North Carolina University in Charlotte, NC. He and his wife are currently living in Loveland, Ohio.  

As a teenager, he took courses at the Dallas Museum of Art. He studied at El Centro School of Fine Arts in Dallas and attended the University of Texas. He studied and worked as a portrait painter in Florence, Italy, and in Holland. 

For seven years, he lived and worked in the Holy Land, where he specialized in paintings of Jerusalem and its people. In Israel, he is equally well-known for his almost photo-realistic stone-by-stone Jerusalem scenes and for his whimsical portraits of the people of Israel, where the artist’s warmth and humor supplement his eye for the smallest detail. 

David Teague’s works have been exhibited in Tel-Aviv since 1977 in the Talma, Hilton and 13½ Galleries, among others. Teague’s first solo show in Israel was in 1980 at Gallery 13½ in Jaffa, with subsequent shows at the Talma Gallery in Tel Aviv and again at Gallery 13½ in 1983. The latter show was jointly sponsored by the American Embassy and Israel’s largest insurance group, Hasneh. United States Ambassador Samuel Lewis chose a painting of Chassidim for his own collection. Hasneh chose Teague’s series of six paintings of the Gates of Jerusalem for its 1983-84 art calendar, which was regarded as the most successful ever done in Israel, with a total printing of over 150,000. 

In the United States, he was commissioned by Davidson College in 1987 to paint “The Commencement,” to commemorate and celebrate their Sesquicentennial. Institutions such as First Citizen Bank of North Carolina and the First Union Bank Corporation have commissioned him to paint large, 15-foot cityscapes. In 1988, he was commissioned by the Crescent Land and Timber Corporation to paint “The Battle of Cowans Ford,” which took place in North Carolina in 1781, between North Carolina volunteers and the British under General Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. 

Education

Master Arts in English Literature
May, 1990
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Doctor of American Literature
August 1995
Florida State University