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1846 Morgan County, Ohio - 1931 Colorado Springs, Colorado. Known for: Indian genre-portrait and landscape painting.
Inspired by Western and Indian life, Charles Craig did paintings characterized by detailed accuracy, gained from several years spent living with various tribes and carefully recording the details of... Read full biography
Inspired by Western and Indian life, Charles Craig did paintings characterized by detailed accuracy, gained from several years spent living with various tribes and carefully recording the details of their culture. A fifty-year resident of Colorado Springs, he was the state's first academically... Read full biography
Inspired by Western and Indian life, Charles Craig did paintings characterized by detailed accuracy, gained from several years spent living with various tribes and carefully recording the details of their culture. A fifty-year resident of Colorado Springs, he was the state's first academically trained resident artist, and his paintings reflected many aspects of his region including the Ute Indians. Friends called him "Pink Face Charlie" because his disposition and his paintings were invariably... Read full biography
Inspired by Western and Indian life, Charles Craig did paintings characterized by detailed accuracy, gained from several years spent living with various tribes and carefully recording the details of their culture. A fifty-year resident of Colorado Springs, he was the state's first academically trained resident artist, and his paintings reflected many aspects of his region including the Ute Indians. Friends called him "Pink Face Charlie" because his disposition and his paintings were invariably cheerful and sunny. Charles Craig was born in 1846 on a farm in Morgan County, Ohio. He began painting as a boy, creating his palette from natural materials and canvases made from oil and flour treated cotton cloths. At the age of 19, he traveled... Read full biography
Inspired by Western and Indian life, Charles Craig did paintings characterized by detailed accuracy, gained from several years spent living with various tribes and carefully recording the details of their culture. A fifty-year resident of Colorado Springs, he was the state's first academically trained resident artist, and his paintings reflected many aspects of his region including the Ute Indians. Friends called him "Pink Face Charlie" because his disposition and his paintings were invariably cheerful and sunny. Charles Craig was born in 1846 on a farm in Morgan County, Ohio. He began painting as a boy, creating his palette from natural materials and canvases made from oil and flour treated cotton cloths. At the age of 19, he traveled West by going up the Missouri River as far as Fort Benton, Montana. For four years, 1865-1869, he explo... Read full biography
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Keywords (32)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indian Figure Prior to 1940
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Pikes Peak, Colorado
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Missouri River Valley Before 1900
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Arbor Lodge, Nebraska City NE
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •Santa Fe Railroad Commissioned Art
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum