Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of... Read full biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find adventure, he joined in 1836... Read full biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find adventure, he joined in 1836 the Texas army in its fight for independence against Mexico, and this period, very brief, was his only experience on the frontier. It is likely that he met trappers on this venture, as several of his... Read full biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find adventure, he joined in 1836 the Texas army in its fight for independence against Mexico, and this period, very brief, was his only experience on the frontier. It is likely that he met trappers on this venture, as several of his most popular paintings including The Trappers Last Shot, were based on a rowdy rendezvous with trapper Joseph Meek in Yellowstone Park. Following this period of western adventure, he returned to Brooklyn where he lived, working in and around New York... Read full biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find adventure, he joined in 1836 the Texas army in its fight for independence against Mexico, and this period, very brief, was his only experience on the frontier. It is likely that he met trappers on this venture, as several of his most popular paintings including The Trappers Last Shot, were based on a rowdy rendezvous with trapper Joseph Meek in Yellowstone Park. Following this period of western adventure, he returned to Brooklyn where he lived, working in and around New York City for the next ten years. In 1853, he moved his family to West Hoboken, New Jersey and built a studio large enough for ani... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (118)
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Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers from the Collection of Warren and Julie Payne
2020
Payne, Warren
136 pages
Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014
Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)
217 pages (color)
Kentucky The Master Painters
2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis
0 pages (color)
Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney With a Catalogue of His Works
2006
Bantel, Linda and Peter H. Hassrick essays by Sarah Boehme & Mark Bockrath
226 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
Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all
0 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002
Hassrick, Peter H
248 pages (color)
The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery (Editor)
120 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
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
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress
1994
Tyler, Ron
197 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Passage and Progress in the Works of William Tylee Ranney (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Pennington, Estill Curtis
40 pages (color)
Treasures From Our West
1992
Curators, Buffalo Bill Center
57 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 pages (color)
The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth
56 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
Carl Wimar Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Stewart, Rick (et al)
251 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Western American Art
1991
Sweeney, J Gray
239 pages (color)
William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Thistlethwaite, Mark
88 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists
1990
Tyler, Ron
208 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1989
National Gallery of Art
203 pages (color)
American Works on Paper III (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Spanierman Gallery
150 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
328 pages (color)
The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Gerald Peters Gallery
93 pages (color)
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West
1988
McCracken, Harold
232 pages
Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Saunders, Richard H
211 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
An American Gallery Spring 1987 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Richard York Gallery
50 pages (color)
The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger
40 pages (color)
American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints
1987
Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all
192 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum
1986
Muhlert, Jan K (intro)
128 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 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
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
Texas Images & Visions (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goetzmann, William/B Reese
168 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier
1982
Glanz, Dawn
205 pages
Legacy of the West
1982
Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher
157 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 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)
The West as Romantic Horizon
1981
Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies)
128 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Ballinger, James K
182 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
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Richards, Jane L
66 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Sweeney, J Gray
220 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina (Exhibition catalog)
1976
North Carolina Museum of Art
146 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
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)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
The American Frontier Images and Myths (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hills, Patricia
64 pages
The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Curry, Larry
198 pages (color)
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute
1971
Rossi, Paul/David Hunt
335 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Bernard Danenberg Galleries
36 pages
American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction),
76 pages
Painting in Texas The Nineteenth Century
1967
Pinckney, Pauline A
213 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey
1964
Gerdts, William H
276 pages
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
William Ranney Painter of the Early West (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Grubar, Francis
97 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of)
1956
McCracken, Harold
32 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers
1954
Rathbone, Perry T (editor)
280 pages (color)
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 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