| Reed A. Thomason | ||
| Birth Date: 1939 |
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| Death Date: December 31, 2009 Artist Gallery |
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| Reed A. Thomason had been creative and involved in the arts most of his life. He was a scholarship student at Syracuse University and earned his BFA in 1961. In his senior year, he was the winner of the Hiram Gee Fellowship in painting. He studied portraiture with John Teyral at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
During his years in the Cleveland area, Thomason worked at American Greetings and taught at the Cooper School of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Thomason designed scenery and costumes for the Canton Civic Ballet, illustrated cookbooks for the Junior Women’s Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1975 he moved to San Diego where he continued painting, did courtroom illustration and freelance commercial work.
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