New Departure: Pioneers for Fifty Years
Type:Illustration
Year:1940
Size:36.00" x 37.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
“New Departure: Pioneers for Fifty Years” Advertisement, New Departure Brakes, ca. 1940;
Herbert Morton Stoops ART FOR SALE
1887/88 Utah - 1948 Mystic, Connecticut. Known for: Old-West illustrator, military and history subjects.
Herbert Morton Stoops was born on a ranch in 1887, seemingly the perfect setting for this future illustrator of the history of the American West. Stoops grew up around men, both cowboys and Indians,... Read full biography
Herbert Morton Stoops was born on a ranch in 1887, seemingly the perfect setting for this future illustrator of the history of the American West. Stoops grew up around men, both cowboys and Indians, who had lived in a bygone West of raw nature, massive buffalo herds and Indian wars, that, by the... Read full biography
Herbert Morton Stoops was born on a ranch in 1887, seemingly the perfect setting for this future illustrator of the history of the American West. Stoops grew up around men, both cowboys and Indians, who had lived in a bygone West of raw nature, massive buffalo herds and Indian wars, that, by the time of Stoops' boyhood, had slipped away and become the past. Stoops graduated from Utah State College in 1905 at the young age of eighteen. He then worked on the "Examiner" and "Morning Call"... Read full biography
Herbert Morton Stoops was born on a ranch in 1887, seemingly the perfect setting for this future illustrator of the history of the American West. Stoops grew up around men, both cowboys and Indians, who had lived in a bygone West of raw nature, massive buffalo herds and Indian wars, that, by the time of Stoops' boyhood, had slipped away and become the past. Stoops graduated from Utah State College in 1905 at the young age of eighteen. He then worked on the "Examiner" and "Morning Call" newspapers in San Francisco as an artist. More than ten years later, in 1916, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute. Interestingly, while in Chicago he met future playwrights and movie screen writers and producers Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, who... Read full biography
Herbert Morton Stoops was born on a ranch in 1887, seemingly the perfect setting for this future illustrator of the history of the American West. Stoops grew up around men, both cowboys and Indians, who had lived in a bygone West of raw nature, massive buffalo herds and Indian wars, that, by the time of Stoops' boyhood, had slipped away and become the past. Stoops graduated from Utah State College in 1905 at the young age of eighteen. He then worked on the "Examiner" and "Morning Call" newspapers in San Francisco as an artist. More than ten years later, in 1916, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute. Interestingly, while in Chicago he met future playwrights and movie screen writers and producers Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, who worked at the Tribune where Stoops was also employed as an artist. Stoops served as an artillery officer in 1... Read full biography
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