Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City... Read full biography
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years was as an illustrator for major magazines including "Colliers," "Argosy"... Read full biography
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years was as an illustrator for major magazines including "Colliers," "Argosy" and "True" and for paperback book publishers. He studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York and then followed a course of commercial art. Many of his illustrations were large... Read full biography
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years was as an illustrator for major magazines including "Colliers," "Argosy" and "True" and for paperback book publishers. He studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York and then followed a course of commercial art. Many of his illustrations were large western paintings, something that continued to earn him a reputation as a top-selling artist. His work was also reproduced and distributed by The Greenwich Workshop. In 1973, he had his first major exhibition of his paintings, a show of twenty-three... Read full biography
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years was as an illustrator for major magazines including "Colliers," "Argosy" and "True" and for paperback book publishers. He studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York and then followed a course of commercial art. Many of his illustrations were large western paintings, something that continued to earn him a reputation as a top-selling artist. His work was also reproduced and distributed by The Greenwich Workshop. In 1973, he had his first major exhibition of his paintings, a show of twenty-three canvases, at the Husburg Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it sold out in twenty minutes. This success caused him to make a total commit... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (32)
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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
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 Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 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 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)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
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
The Art of Frank C McCarthy
1992
Kelton, Elmer
160 pages (color)
National Academy of Western Art Twentieth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
158 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Twenty Fourth Annual Exhibition 1989 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Cowboy Artists of America
60 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Reynolds, Catherine
153 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 1986 Twenty-First Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carter, Gary (Introduction)
64 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Visions West The Story of Cowboy Artists of America Museum
1983
Dedera, Don
84 pages (color)
A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection
1982
Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik
52 pages (color)
Contemporary Western Artists
1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
608 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Sixteenth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Cowboy Artists of America
80 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Ten Years with the Cowboy Artist A Complete History (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Howard, James K
213 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West