Landscape, figure, portrait painter and graphic artist Harry Peyton Carnohan was born on April 18, 1904 in Milford, Texas, moving to Dallas around 1910. He studied privately with Vivian Aunspaugh and Frank Reaugh before attending the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Carnohan then spent five years in Paris, Florence, and Rome, one of them studying with Andre Lhote. He financed his sojourn in Europe on a foreign study scholarship, the Bryan Lathrop Traveling Fellowship, in 1926 from the Art Institute that was supplemented by a Guggenheim Fellowship. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, in 1927.

Carnohan had a varied career as a painter portrait, landscape and figure; a muralist, graphic artist, writer, critic and teacher. H...