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1885 Holdredge, Nebraska - 1961 Hollywood, California. Known for: Frontier genre, horse, portrait.
Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store,... Read full biography
Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store, rubbed with whiskey and warmed in the oven. He grew up witnessing the end of the "horse drawn Westward... Read full biography
Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store, rubbed with whiskey and warmed in the oven. He grew up witnessing the end of the "horse drawn Westward migration." . Self taught as a painter, he was a newspaper artist for ten years in Denver. While in Denver, he received commissions from Eastern magazines for covers and illustrations on Western... Read full biography
Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store, rubbed with whiskey and warmed in the oven. He grew up witnessing the end of the "horse drawn Westward migration." . Self taught as a painter, he was a newspaper artist for ten years in Denver. While in Denver, he received commissions from Eastern magazines for covers and illustrations on Western subjects. In addition he made twenty-five cent portraits for tourists at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs and worked on sport illustrations. About 1924, he moved to Hollywood, California where he worked as a motion picture title artist for seven... Read full biography
Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store, rubbed with whiskey and warmed in the oven. He grew up witnessing the end of the "horse drawn Westward migration." . Self taught as a painter, he was a newspaper artist for ten years in Denver. While in Denver, he received commissions from Eastern magazines for covers and illustrations on Western subjects. In addition he made twenty-five cent portraits for tourists at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs and worked on sport illustrations. About 1924, he moved to Hollywood, California where he worked as a motion picture title artist for seven years. He illustrated Western books including two on North American Indians, "Cottonwood Yarns" 1935; "Dickon Among the Lenape Indians," 19... Read full biography
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Keywords (26)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Cowboys
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Horse Subject Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum