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 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…
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…
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 on a
farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American
illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New
Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it
disappeared.
Especially
helpful to…
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation.…
Born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, John Hauser was one of several early 20th-century Ohio
artists known for paintings of Western Indians. His birth date is given
as both 1858 and 1859. He is given credit for doing much to educate
Americans…
Bill Hughes was born in
1932 and he was drawn to art at a young age. “It was something I knew all
along. I knew I was going to do art.” A native of Ohio, Hughes attended the
University of…
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,…
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years…
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…
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.…
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…
