J. Clinton Shepherd, sculptor, painter and illustrator, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1888. He became an illustrator in New York, and then the Director of the Norton School of Art in Palm Beach,... Read full biography
J. Clinton Shepherd, sculptor, painter and illustrator, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1888. He became an illustrator in New York, and then the Director of the Norton School of Art in Palm Beach, Florida from 1941 to 1946. His specialty was painting in realist style western subjects and animals.... Read full biography
J. Clinton Shepherd, sculptor, painter and illustrator, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1888. He became an illustrator in New York, and then the Director of the Norton School of Art in Palm Beach, Florida from 1941 to 1946. His specialty was painting in realist style western subjects and animals. Shepherd studied for two years at the University of Missouri, and then he and his brother, Donald, explored the Northwest, living with the Crow Indians where he learned their language and customs. It... Read full biography
J. Clinton Shepherd, sculptor, painter and illustrator, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1888. He became an illustrator in New York, and then the Director of the Norton School of Art in Palm Beach, Florida from 1941 to 1946. His specialty was painting in realist style western subjects and animals. Shepherd studied for two years at the University of Missouri, and then he and his brother, Donald, explored the Northwest, living with the Crow Indians where he learned their language and customs. It was during this period that he became interested in doing sculpture depicting Indians and western subjects. During WW1 he joined the service, graduating from flight school, and he became a pilot in the Signal Corps, now the US Air Force. Following... Read full biography
J. Clinton Shepherd, sculptor, painter and illustrator, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1888. He became an illustrator in New York, and then the Director of the Norton School of Art in Palm Beach, Florida from 1941 to 1946. His specialty was painting in realist style western subjects and animals. Shepherd studied for two years at the University of Missouri, and then he and his brother, Donald, explored the Northwest, living with the Crow Indians where he learned their language and customs. It was during this period that he became interested in doing sculpture depicting Indians and western subjects. During WW1 he joined the service, graduating from flight school, and he became a pilot in the Signal Corps, now the US Air Force. Following WWI, he attended art schools at The Chicago Institute, The Beaux Art Institute in Paris, and the Kansas City Art Institute, and among his t... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (18)
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Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Pulp Culture The Art of Fiction Magazines
1998
Robinson, Frank/L Davidson
204 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Art of the American West
1983
Murray, Richard N
74 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection
1981
Eiteljorg, Harrison
172 pages (color)
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Bronzes of the American West
1973
Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)
429 pages (color)
Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years
1939
Ness, Zenobia; Louise Orwig
253 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index