Betty Edwards is an American

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 art teacher and author

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, best known for her 1979 book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. She taught and did research at the California State University

California State University

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, Long Beach until she retired in the late '90s. While there, she founded the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research.

She received a Bachelor’s in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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 (UCLA, 1947), a Master's of Art from California State University, Northridge, and a Doctorate in Art, Education, and Psychology from UCLA (1976).

Betty Edwards' major publications include: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, 1979 (revised and reprinted in 1989 and 1999), Penguin Putnam; Drawing on the Artist Within, 1986, Simon & Schuster; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, 1998, Penguin Putnam; and Color: Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors, 2004, Penguin Putnam.