Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From that institution, he won a Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe in 1913 and 1914. Because of tuberculosis, he went West to Utah and Nevada and in 1916 to Albuquerque where... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From that institution, he won a Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe in 1913 and 1914. Because of tuberculosis, he went West to Utah and Nevada and in 1916 to Albuquerque where he worked as a commercial illustrator and began selling his first paintings. Wanting to get a better understanding of the Ind... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (53)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe
2012
Lewandowski, Stacia
272 pages (color)
A Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock: A One-Hundred Year Celebration (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Taylor, Dawn-Wolf; Aycock, Bonnie
52 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art Colony: Gerald Peters Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Udall, Sharyn R; Julie Schimmel (Introduction)
127 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
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway
1991
D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell
147 pages (color)
Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA
1990
Danly, Susan
91 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture/A Gentle Reconstruction
1989
Beckham, Sue Bidwell
338 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art Colony 1900-1942 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Udall, Sharyn R.
99 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
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
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection
1981
Eiteljorg, Harrison
172 pages (color)
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
Painters in Taos Formative Years (Eiteljorg Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Phoenix Art Museum
60 pages (color)
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Santa Fe, the Early Years
1976
Robertson, Edna/Sarah Nestor
182 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
The Cowboy in American Prints
1972
Meigs, John (intro)
184 pages
Art of the Western Scene 1880-194 (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Phoenix Art Museum
28 pages
The Cowboy in Art
1968
Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward)
242 pages (color)
The McKee Collection of Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1968
El Paso Museum of Art
66 pages (color)
An Exhibition of Paintings of the Southwest From the Santa Fe Railway Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Hinkhouse, F M
26 pages
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
60 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index