Known for pencil drawings of western scenes, Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt was born in Illinois in 1935, and has called Arizona home since 1976. Shufelt was early on inspired by his high school teacher De... Read full biography
Known for pencil drawings of western scenes, Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt was born in Illinois in 1935, and has called Arizona home since 1976. Shufelt was early on inspired by his high school teacher De Witt Whistler. He earned a degree from the University of Illinois and worked for twenty years as an... Read full biography
Known for pencil drawings of western scenes, Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt was born in Illinois in 1935, and has called Arizona home since 1976. Shufelt was early on inspired by his high school teacher De Witt Whistler. He earned a degree from the University of Illinois and worked for twenty years as an illustrator in Chicago, doing advertising and television story boards. In 1976, Shufelt moved to Arizona with his wife Julie to live on her family ranch in Wickenburg. He took up cowboy activities... Read full biography
Known for pencil drawings of western scenes, Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt was born in Illinois in 1935, and has called Arizona home since 1976. Shufelt was early on inspired by his high school teacher De Witt Whistler. He earned a degree from the University of Illinois and worked for twenty years as an illustrator in Chicago, doing advertising and television story boards. In 1976, Shufelt moved to Arizona with his wife Julie to live on her family ranch in Wickenburg. He took up cowboy activities and decided that was the subject matter for his fine art. Though he was urged by galleries and teachers to paint, Shufelt never gave up drawing as his medium of choice. "I'm glad I found my nitch way back when, and can be counted among the living. In a... Read full biography
Known for pencil drawings of western scenes, Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt was born in Illinois in 1935, and has called Arizona home since 1976. Shufelt was early on inspired by his high school teacher De Witt Whistler. He earned a degree from the University of Illinois and worked for twenty years as an illustrator in Chicago, doing advertising and television story boards. In 1976, Shufelt moved to Arizona with his wife Julie to live on her family ranch in Wickenburg. He took up cowboy activities and decided that was the subject matter for his fine art. Though he was urged by galleries and teachers to paint, Shufelt never gave up drawing as his medium of choice. "I'm glad I found my nitch way back when, and can be counted among the living. In a nutshell, I hope I'm an unaffected type, except when experiencing the joy of my accomplishm... Read full biography
Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt - Artist Info
About Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt: Books
Books & Publications (15)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The West Select (Phoenix Art Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Editor, Men's Arts Council, Phoenix Art Museum
94 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
The Point of My Pencil from Shoofly's War-Bag
2002
Shufelt, Robert
144 pages
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)
Western Rendezvous of Art Twentieth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Western Rendezvous of Art
48 pages (color)
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Mountain Oyster 28th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show (Exhibition catalog)