The Mentor: Painters of Western Life, Vol 3, Num. 9, Serial No. 85, June 15, 1915 — John Shaqi
The Mentor: Painters of Western Life, Vol 3, Num. 9, Serial No. 85, June 15, 1915Hoeber, Arthur
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The Mentor: Painters of Western Life, Vol 3, Num. 9, Serial No. 85, June 15, 1915
Hoeber, Arthur
Painting -- United States; West (U.S.) -- In art
Other pupils of that noted illustrator have attained distinctive
positions in portraying varied forms of Western life. The legends
and traditions of the Indian have attracted Remington Schuyler. The
pictorial aspect of his active life in the open, together with his
contact with wild animal life, has supplied subjects for Philip
Goodwin; while the life of the frontiersman and the pioneer has
inspired the sturdy work of Allen True and Harvey Dunn. These five men
have pictured the West in the same large spirit in which their master
worked in rendering the buccaneers of the sea and the continental
soldier. Most of the painters of the West have been illustrators first
and painters later.
At Cody, Wyoming, for a large part of the year lives William R. Leigh.
He was born in West Virginia in 1866. He was a pupil of the Munich art
schools, and received medals in Paris. He has painted much of the West
that has passed,--of Indian and soldier, of settler and cowboy, of some
of the battles of the ’60’s between the United States troops and the
savages,--and has given some of the wonderful landscape backgrounds,
devoting no less attention to the extraordinary local color than to the
figure.
[Illustration: THE HOUSE OF E. IRVING COUSE
At Taos, New Mexico]
Edward W. Deming, who has both painted and modeled the Indian, executed
some years ago a large decoration for the home of Mrs. E. H. Harriman,
at Arden, New York, with the title “The Hunt,” showing the red men
after big game. Similarly Maynard Dixon has executed decorative work of
the Indian for some California homes. His training was through several
years of illustrative work for the magazines, and in this work he
always had a distinctly decorative composition of his subject, though
his rendering was realistic and virile.
[Illustration: WISEMAN, WARRIOR, YOUTH
By E. L. Blumenschein]
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