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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. His... Read full biography
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. His media were oil, watercolor, pastel and tempera. Back in Dallas in 1930, Carnohan was active in the Dallas Artists League, and the Dallas Ni... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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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
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999
Grauer, Paula and Michael R.
240 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle
1985
Stewart, Rick
200 pages (color)
Texas Images & Visions (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goetzmann, William/B Reese
168 pages (color)
Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Bywaters, Jerry (Introduction)
96 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940
Ball, Charlotte (editor)
790 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index