Reeder, Edward Dickson. (1912-1970). B: Fort Worth. D: Fort Worth. Painter, watercolorist, pastelist, printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist, teacher. Fort Worth. Studied: Sallie Blythe Mummert; Sallie Gillespie; Art Students League of New York (1930-1932); Wayman Adams; George Brandt Bridgman; Ivan Gregorovitch Olinsky; Alexandra Exter and Stanley William Hayter in Paris, France (1936). Member: Texas Fine Arts Association; Southern States Art League; Texas Artists Group; Fort Worth Art Association; The Eight. Exhibitions:Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth Museum of Art, 1934Portrait-Helen Sparks (pastel), 1935Shoeshine, 1936Portrait-Mrs. Harry Gateley; Southern States Art League, 1934Portrait-Wayman Adams, 1935Mrs. Hubert H. Crane; Allied Artists Club of Fort Worth, 1935Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936Sallie Gillespie; Abilene Woman's Club, 1937Old Mexican Women; Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, 1937Irish Girl; Southern States Art League, 1938Nellie Ardell, 1939White Flowers and Seashell, Green Fruit, 1944The Dispute (prize), 1945All Hallows Eve; West Texas Fair, Abilene, 1938Shoe Shine Boy; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1939The Studios, Fort Worth, 1940, (joint with Flora Blanc)Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941Flora; Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1941After Rehearsal, Dance to a Song by De Falla, The Mother, 1942The Hat With the Green Ribbon (honorable mention), 1943Charade Party (honorable mention), Portrait-Stel, 1944Beauty and the Beast (prize), The Cloistered Bird, 1945Ellaraye, Trio, 1946Bill Bomar, 1948Charles; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1944Green Fish (color etching), 1945Carnival Machinery (engraving), Two Clowns and a Lady (soft ground etching); Texas Fine Arts Association, 1941, 1951, 1952Forms in Reds, 1953Woman with Fruit (gouache), 1953Green Landscape, 1954, 1956Walter Martin (prize), 1957Two Performers (Theater piece), 1962, 1963Geraldine Smaragdine; Fort Worth Local Artists Exhibition, 1941Portrait-Glenn and Ogden Shannon (prize), 1942, 1943The Lady With The Cat (prize), 1944Frightened Harlequin, Portrait-Ellen, 1945An Explanation (prize), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949The Blonde and the Brunette, Charles; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1941, 1943Texas Panorama: An Exhibition of Paintings by Twenty-Seven Texas Artists. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1943The Hat with the Green Ribbon and American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1944The Hat with the Green Ribbon; Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1943American Painting, 1950Six Texas Painters, Weyhe Galleries, New York, 1944Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1944Hat With The Green Ribbon; Texas Artists Group, 1945Portrait-Ann, Head of Young Girl, All-West Texas Exhibition, Abilene, 1946Woman with Pearls (prize), 1948Mora (prize), 1949Veronica (prize); The Eight, Scott Hall, Dallas, 1946Portrait of Flora; History of Fort Worth Art, Fort Worth Public Library, 1948 Metropolitan Exhibition, American Painting, 1950Triple H. Ranch Inn, Tucson, Arizona, 1950Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 1952Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, 1953, (solo)D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas, 1955Head, 1956William Shotwell, 1957, 1959Bees in a Hot Garden; Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1957Head (charcoal), 1961Tomicomak (color etching) (prize); Made in Texas by Texas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1959Hive in the Sun; Gallery Koepcke, Copenhagen, 1959, (solo)Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1959State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1959Fort Worth Art Center, 1960, (solo)South Plains Art Guild, Lubbock, 1960Fort Worth Print Society, 1967Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 1968 Collections: Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Portrait-Andrew Dasburg, 1957Corpus Christi Art Foundation, All Hallows Eve; University of Texas, Austin; Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Portrait-President Sadler; South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, All Hallows Eve; Dallas Museum of Art, The Dispute; Fort Worth Woman's Club; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Portrait-Andrew Dasburg; Texas Tech University, Lubbock; San Antonio Art League; Colorado Fine Arts Center; Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York. Reeder married artist Flora Blanc in New York City in 1937. They moved to Fort Worth in 1940. He taught at Our Lady of Victory College and Texas Wesleyan College. Blanc and Reeder founded and taught at the Children's School of Theater and Design (1945-1958). Reeder taught at the New School for Social Research, New York for periods during 1944 and 1945. Reeder worked in Paris, France (1958-1960). He taught at the Fort Worth Art Center after returning from France.