Charles Partridge
Adams, a Colorado landscape painter, produced a small, nonetheless imperatively
substantial 20th century body of work of the Teton Range on the
Wyoming side of the state's border with Idaho. William H. Goetzmann writes in
chapter eighteen of…
A
founding member of the Cowboy Artists of America*, Joe Beeler was a pioneer in
contemporary western art and is accomplished in both painting and bronzes.
At annual exhibitions of the CAA, Beeler earned numerous Sculpture Awards:
Silver, 2000; Gold…
A founder in 1898
of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals
and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early
paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts
254)
He was…
Born June 9, 1920, in London, England, John Berry
began his studies in art early in life and won a scholarship to the Hammersmith
College of Art, London, in 1934. He was then awarded a scholarship to the
Royal Academy…
A noted watercolor painter of western scenes and member of the Cowboy Artists of America, James Boren was born in Waxahatchie, Texas, the son of a minister. He knew as a teenager that he wanted to be an illustrator but…
George Browne was
recognized in the mid-1950s as a sporting artist of the first rank, the
ascendant star among American wildlife painters of his generation. His oils of
waterfowl and upland game birds in flight were compared favorably to the…
Gerald Cassidy,
known for his subjects of the Southwest including Indian portraits and for his
lithography, was born in Covington, KY., and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He studied at the Mechanic Institute in Cincinnati and with Frank Duveneck at…
A student
at the Howard Pyle School in Wilmington, Delaware, John Clymer was strongly
influenced by N.C. Wyeth in illustration and became a noted painter of animals
and western history. His first illustrations were for Canadian
publications, and then he…
Born in Saginaw,
Michigan, Eanger Couse is primarily known for Taos Pueblo Indian males sitting
or squatting by camp fire light, suggesting that Indians were peaceful,
dignified human beings and not the savages of Western lore.
Growing up in
Saginaw,…
Born in Marion,
Massachusetts on Cape Cod, Gerard Delano, with a strong New England heritage,
became a well-known illustrator and fine-art painter of western scenes,
particularly Navajo Indians in landscape.
He was the son of a
sea captain and named…
Born in Pennsgrove,
New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings
became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians
of New Mexico where he joined The Taos Society of Artists. Of his painting,…
Modernism, realism, and a passion for the West were all strongly in Harry Jackson's blood. Born in Chicago in 1924, he ran away from home at age fourteen to become a cowboy and managed to get to Wyoming. He stopped…
Born
near Big Grove, Iowa, Frank Tenney Johnson, became one of the most famous early
20th-century painters of Western genre.
He
was raised on a farm on the old Overland Trail where he observed western
migration of people on horseback,…
Born in Oslo, Norway on Oct.
7, 1860 Christian Jorgensen moved to San Francisco with his mother in
1870. He showed artistic promise
at an early age, and when the School of Design opened in 1874, he was among the…
Selected wildlife painter of the year in 1998 by the Friends of Western Art in Tucson, Arizona, Robert Kuhn was born in Buffalo, New York in 1920, and was educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He was…
Fred Machetanz is
the most widely acclaimed artist to continue the traditional frontier image of
Alaska into the present day. Focusing on Alaskan animals, Native people,
pioneers, and the dramatic landscape, Machetanz's work is widely reproduced and
highly sought after…
Known for highly realistic Indian portraits with rich skin tones as well as Southwest and California desert landscape paintings, R Brownell McGrew showed early art talent in his home town and birth place of Columbus, Ohio. He moved to California…
Ogden
Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1905. When he was eleven a friend
gave him a paint box filled with all the colors in the world. His father was
very interested in the arts, especially music, and…
Born
near Berlin, Germany, Carl Rungius became one of America's most noted wildlife
artists, usually working in plein air or directly from nature. His
grandfather was a taxidermist and animal hunter, which gave him early exposure
to this subject matter. …
Schwiering lived until January 1986, and during those last years of his life he enjoyed considerable artistic success and acknowledgment of his achievements as a landscape artist.For example, in 1981 he was recognized by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame…
Considered
a transition painter between those of the Old West such as Remington and
Russell to a later generation that painted only myth and imaginative work, Olaf
Seltzer arrived in Great Falls, Montana in 1897, at the age of nineteen.…
Born in Bridgeport, Ohio, Joseph Sharp was regarded as the "father of the Taos Art Colony," and was known for his Indian figure and genre painting as well as for exquisitely colorful landscapes. He was one of the first Caucasian…
A
member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society,
Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo,
Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting
children and smaller animals belonging…
Like many of his contemporaries, Mel Warren followed an arduous path to achieve artistic success. After
serving a stint in the Air Force, he earned degrees in fine art from Texas
Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. When he graduated,…
Fritz White was
born January 14, 1930 in Milford, Ohio near Cincinnati. The Little Miami River,
which borders Cincinnati on the east, was a main thoroughfare north and south
for the Shawnee tribes that were settled throughout Ohio.
Artifacts of…
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and…
