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Elmer Boone BIOGRAPHY
1883 Joplin, Missouri - 1952 El Paso, Texas. Known for: Landscape, genre, and figure painting, commercial art.
Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and... Read full biography
Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The artist died in El Paso, Texas in 1952, after returning from a painting trip to Arizona's Oak... Read full biography
Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The artist died in El Paso, Texas in 1952, after returning from a painting trip to Arizona's Oak Creek Canyon, in Sedona. He was buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Boone studied in Chicago, Illinois, at the Smith School of Art, and the Art Institute. He eventually moved to El Paso in 1927 because... Read full biography
Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The artist died in El Paso, Texas in 1952, after returning from a painting trip to Arizona's Oak Creek Canyon, in Sedona. He was buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Boone studied in Chicago, Illinois, at the Smith School of Art, and the Art Institute. He eventually moved to El Paso in 1927 because of poor health, after a period painting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and with famed cowboy artist Charles M. Russell in Montana. It is possible he had painting instruction from Russell. In El Paso, Boone was a founder of the art exhibition that was... Read full biography
Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The artist died in El Paso, Texas in 1952, after returning from a painting trip to Arizona's Oak Creek Canyon, in Sedona. He was buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Boone studied in Chicago, Illinois, at the Smith School of Art, and the Art Institute. He eventually moved to El Paso in 1927 because of poor health, after a period painting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and with famed cowboy artist Charles M. Russell in Montana. It is possible he had painting instruction from Russell. In El Paso, Boone was a founder of the art exhibition that was part of the annual Sun Carnival there. He earned his living by commercial art from his studio in... Read full biography
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Elmer L. Boone, a painter of southwestern landscapes and Mexican subjects in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1883. From 1925, he painted primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The artist died in El Paso, Texas in 1952, after returning from a painting trip to Arizona's Oak Creek Canyon, in Sedona. He was buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Boone studied in Chicago, Illinois, at the Smith School of Art, and the Art Institute. He eventually moved to El Paso in 1927 because of poor health, after a period painting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and with famed cowboy artist Charles M. Russell in Montana. It is possible he had painting instruction from Russell.
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