Budd Harris Bishop, a native Tennessean, is known widely throughout Tennessee and throughout the country among major museum professionals. He was instrumental in helping oversee the first expansion of the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga in the early 1970’s; he has held top positions within the museum professional societies; and in addition to his stint as director of the Hunter Museum, his 32-year museum career has included the Director, Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, and the Founding Director of the Harn Museum of Art in Florida. He painted early in his career in Nashville, while teaching at Vanderbilt and at Cheekwood. In the last 10 years has been steadily painting his favorite East Tennessee landscapes.
