Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed... Read full biography
Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it disappeared. Especially helpful to his career was the patronage of Texans Nelda and... Read full biography
Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it disappeared. Especially helpful to his career was the patronage of Texans Nelda and H.J. Lutcher Stark whose collection founded the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas. They bought hundreds of Dunton's paintings during the Depression because his renderings of animals and landscape greatly... Read full biography
Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it disappeared. Especially helpful to his career was the patronage of Texans Nelda and H.J. Lutcher Stark whose collection founded the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas. They bought hundreds of Dunton's paintings during the Depression because his renderings of animals and landscape greatly appealed to Texans, and their Dunton paintings became the largest collection in America by that artist. When he was a youngster, Dunton spent much time roaming the woods and fields around Augusta with a gun and sketch-book, and by the time he was... Read full biography
Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it disappeared. Especially helpful to his career was the patronage of Texans Nelda and H.J. Lutcher Stark whose collection founded the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas. They bought hundreds of Dunton's paintings during the Depression because his renderings of animals and landscape greatly appealed to Texans, and their Dunton paintings became the largest collection in America by that artist. When he was a youngster, Dunton spent much time roaming the woods and fields around Augusta with a gun and sketch-book, and by the time he was sixteen, he was selling drawings and stories of outdoor life to local newspapers and to the... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (92)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951
2009
Katlan, Alexander W.
623 pages
In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Hassrick, Peter H.; Elizabeth J. Cunningham
0 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
Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck)
2003
Clemmer, David
120 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art
2000
Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward)
200 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
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
1999
Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie
400 pages (color)
New Mexico Art of the State
1998
Bix, Cynthia
96 pages (color)
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
The Taos Society of Artists
1998
Robert R. White, Editor
126 pages
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 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
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway
1991
D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell
147 pages (color)
W. Herbert Dunton: A Retrospective (Panhandle Plains Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Grauer, Michael R.
0 pages
John Steuart Curry Rural America (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wunderlich, Susan
48 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Rendezvous to Roundup: The First 100 Years of Wyoming Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Boehme, Sarah E
49 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)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center
1988
Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme
128 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
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
Masterworks of the Taos Founders (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerald Peters Collection
84 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
W Herbert Dunton Life and Art, 1878-1936
1984
Schimmel, Julie
268 pages (color)
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Pioneer Artists of Taos Revised, Expanded
1983
Bickerstaff, Laura
227 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art
1983
Foxley, William
200 pages (color)
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942
1983
Gibson, Arrell Morgan
305 pages
The Gerald Peters Collection A Selection of Paintings
1983
Peters, Gerald
96 pages (color)
The Taos Society of Artists
1983
White, Robert R
126 pages
The Popular West American Illustrators 1900-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Ballinger, James/Susan Gordon
56 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Santa Fe and Taos 1898-1942 An American Cultural Center
1982
Reeve, Kay Aiken
56 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
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)
The Cowboy (Exhibition catalog)
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
89 pages (color)
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 pages (color)
Taos: A Painter's Dream
1980
Broder, Patricia Janis
321 pages (color)
The Legendary Artists of Taos
1980
Nelson, Mary Carroll
176 pages (color)
Painters in Taos Formative Years (Eiteljorg Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Phoenix Art Museum
60 pages (color)
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
American Art of the Taos School
1978
Peters, Gerald P
480 pages (color)
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
Paintings from the McKee Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Phoenix Art Museum
36 pages (color)
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist
1975
Dykes, Jeff
456 pages (color)
Art of Arizona & the Southwest Paintings from Santa Fe Industries Inc (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Phoenix Art Museum
25 pages (color)
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Museum of Texas Tech Univ
60 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The Renaisance of Western Art
1974
Ward, Johanna Walsh
144 pages (color)
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
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
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
Taos and Its Artists
1947
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
168 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
Olympic Competition and Exhibitio of Art, Catalogue of the Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)