Known for his realistic depiction of Indian figures, Donald Crowley was born in Redlands and raised in Santa Ana, California from the time he was ten years old. He showed art talent from childhood.... Read full biography
Known for his realistic depiction of Indian figures, Donald Crowley was born in Redlands and raised in Santa Ana, California from the time he was ten years old. He showed art talent from childhood. Of his personal feelings about art expression, he said: "Art is like sex. It's something that you do;... Read full biography
Known for his realistic depiction of Indian figures, Donald Crowley was born in Redlands and raised in Santa Ana, California from the time he was ten years old. He showed art talent from childhood. Of his personal feelings about art expression, he said: "Art is like sex. It's something that you do; not something that you talk about." . As a young man, he was a close friend and painting companion with Mervin Corning, who became an accomplished watercolorist. Crowley was heavily influenced... Read full biography
Known for his realistic depiction of Indian figures, Donald Crowley was born in Redlands and raised in Santa Ana, California from the time he was ten years old. He showed art talent from childhood. Of his personal feelings about art expression, he said: "Art is like sex. It's something that you do; not something that you talk about." . As a young man, he was a close friend and painting companion with Mervin Corning, who became an accomplished watercolorist. Crowley was heavily influenced towards subjects and technique by Frederic Remington's book, Done in the Open, and also by a book of English painters, titled World Famous Paintings, edited by Rockwell Kent. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marines, and then used the G.I.... Read full biography
Known for his realistic depiction of Indian figures, Donald Crowley was born in Redlands and raised in Santa Ana, California from the time he was ten years old. He showed art talent from childhood. Of his personal feelings about art expression, he said: "Art is like sex. It's something that you do; not something that you talk about." . As a young man, he was a close friend and painting companion with Mervin Corning, who became an accomplished watercolorist. Crowley was heavily influenced towards subjects and technique by Frederic Remington's book, Done in the Open, and also by a book of English painters, titled World Famous Paintings, edited by Rockwell Kent. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marines, and then used the G.I. Bill to finance his way through the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Of this educat... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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Cowboy Artists of America 44th Annual Exhibition, 2009 (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Phoenix Art Museum
71 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists: 2004
2004
Editors, Art of the West
80 pages (color)
Desert Dreams: The Western Art of Don Crowley
2003
Hedgpeth, Don
144 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America
2002
Duty, Michael; Don Hedgpeth
216 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
The Great American West
2000
Editor, Settlers West
0 pages
A Brush With Reality: Detailing the West in Contemporary Art Desert Caballeros Western Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1998
McGarry, Susan Hallsten
58 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Phoenix Art Museum
80 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 32nd Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Cowboy Artists of America
80 pages (color)
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1997 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
194 pages (color)
The Tucson 7 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Sherman, Tisa (others)
64 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Prix de West Invitational 1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
192 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 30th Anniversary Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Haley, J. Evetts (Introduction)
80 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Artists of America Tenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Denver Rotary Club
160 pages (color)
Artists of America Eighth Annual (Exhibition catalog)