| Clark Hulings was born in 1922, and raised in New York, where he studied at the Art Students League. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 1957, Hulings is a major force in western genre painting, and is also an accomplished portraitist and illustrator.
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| Born Harry Shapiro, Harry Jackson grew up in Chicago, before running away to Wyoming at the age of 14, finding work as a ranch hand. He was encouraged in art by an early teacher, and by his peers in Wyoming, and by 1940 had returned to Chicago to attend the Art Institute, the Frederick Mizen Academy, and the Academy of Fine Arts. Following WW II, Jackson moved to New York, befriended Jackson Pollock, and experimented with Abstract Expressionism. In 1858, while on a trip to Italy, Jackson began working with sculpture, and again painted in a more representational style. His studio is located in Cody, Wyoming, where he occasionally takes on monumental projects such as his famous 6-ton, 21 foot John Wayne.
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| Helena Dunlap was born in Los Angeles, California in 1876. She was very well studied, having attended the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Paris. Returning to Los Angeles in 1911, Dunlap exhibited her Modernist paintings, earning awards throughout California. Helena Dunlap died in Whittier, California, in 1955, where she kept a studio on her orange ranch.
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| Paul Dyck was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1917. At a very early age, Dyck was sent to Europe to be apprenticed to an uncle, who was a successful artist. By the age of 15, he was on his own and studying at the Munich Academy. Following service in WW II, Dyck settled in Arizona, becoming a rancher and painting western subjects. His preferred medium is egg tempera with high glazes.
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| Charlie Dye was born in Canon City, Colorado, in 1906. He worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California before attending the Art Institute of Chicago in 1927. Dye then headed to New York where he enjoyed commercial success as an illustrator. Feeling there was a need for quality western art, Dye moved to Denver in where he was a partner in the Colorado Institute of Art. In 1960 he gave up teaching and illustration work and moved to Sedona, Arizona, enjoying more success as a cowboy-western genre painter. While in Arizona Dye helped found the Cowboy Artists of America.
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| William John Edmonson was born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1868. Edmondson studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Paris at the Academie Julian. Upon his return to the states, Edmondson spent the majority of his career in Cleveland before moving to Southern California in 1950. His oeuvre includes still lifes, landscapes, and finely executed figuratives. William John Edmondson died in Pasadena in 1966.
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| Nick Eggenhofer was grew up in Germany, where he was fascinated with the subject of the American West. In 1913 he moved with his family to New York, and three years later entered art classes at the Cooper Union. Eggenhofer established a successful illustration studio in New Jersey, staying there until his move to Cody, Wyoming in 1966. He is best known for the historical accuracy of his frontier subjects.
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| Fremont Ellis was born in Virginia City, Montana, in 1897. Ellis had no formal education as a child, and began painting as a young boy. Except for 3 months spent at the Art Students League in New York, Ellis was a self-taught painter. In 1915 he moved to Los Angeles with the intention of learning optometry. This lasted only 2 years before he quit to pursue his art full-time. From 1920 on Ellis would spend the majority of his time in Santa Fe, and from there he would travel the southwest on painting expeditions. His works were popular in Santa Fe, as well as Los Angeles, where he exhibited.
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| Henry Francois Farny was born in Alsace, France, in 1847, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1853. His family settled briefly in Pennsylvania where Farny was introduced to the Seneca Tribe, beginning a lifelong fascination with Native Americans. In 1859 he again moved, this time to Cincinnati, where he is most associated. Farny was internationally known for his, usually small, non-dramatized paintings of Indian life. Traveling frequently to the west, Farny was adopted in to the Sioux tribe before his death in Cincinnati in 1916.
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| Nicolai Fechin was born in Kazan, Russia, in 1881, where he was trained at the Kazan Art School, which was founded by his grandfather. Further study at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersberg was followed by the hard years that followed the Bolshevik Revolution. Eventually immigrating to the U.S., Fechin found work teaching and exhibiting in New York. Fame would find Fechin upon his move to Taos, necessitated by tuberculosis. In the Southwest Fechin focused his work on the local inhabitants, painting dramatic, richly colored and inpastoed works. At the height of his career, Fechin started an art school in Santa Monica, where he died in 1955.
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