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1906 Canon City, Colorado - 1972 Sedona, Arizona. Known for: Cowboy-western genre painting, magazine illustration.
Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell. From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him... Read full biography
Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell. From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him that he considered art as a career. In the hospital recovering from his injuries, he saw reproductions... Read full biography
Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell. From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him that he considered art as a career. In the hospital recovering from his injuries, he saw reproductions of Russell's paintings in a magazine, and that exposure set his career of portraying the lives of cattlemen. Charlie Dye worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California until he was 21 and... Read full biography
Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell. From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him that he considered art as a career. In the hospital recovering from his injuries, he saw reproductions of Russell's paintings in a magazine, and that exposure set his career of portraying the lives of cattlemen. Charlie Dye worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California until he was 21 and then enrolled in Chicago at the Art Institute and the American Academy. In 1936, he moved to New York City to work as a magazine illustrator and took lessons from Harvey Dunn, known as a great illustrator. He also worked with Felix Schmidt in a... Read full biography
Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell. From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him that he considered art as a career. In the hospital recovering from his injuries, he saw reproductions of Russell's paintings in a magazine, and that exposure set his career of portraying the lives of cattlemen. Charlie Dye worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California until he was 21 and then enrolled in Chicago at the Art Institute and the American Academy. In 1936, he moved to New York City to work as a magazine illustrator and took lessons from Harvey Dunn, known as a great illustrator. He also worked with Felix Schmidt in a commercial studio. Dye was a successful illustrator in New York, doing assignments for Saturday Evening Po... Read full biography
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Keywords (37)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
Art Association
- •Cowboy Artists of America
Art School
- •American Academy of Art, Chicago, Student
- •Harvey Dunn School of Art, Leonia, New Jersey, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Genre Specialty
- •Horse Subject Specialty
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Western Subject Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Cowboy Artists of America-