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1924 Chicago, Illinois - 2011 Sheridan, Wyoming. Known for: Sculpture-western figure, horses.
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011). Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and... Read full biography
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011). Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. He was raised in a family where... Read full biography
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011). Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. He was raised in a family where his mother ran a cafe near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington... Read full biography
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011). Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. He was raised in a family where his mother ran a cafe near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes or to hang out at his mother's cafe listening to stories from the cowboys who had brought their cattle by trains to the stockyards. A teacher noticed his art talent and got him a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute's Saturday children's... Read full biography
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011). Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. He was raised in a family where his mother ran a cafe near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes or to hang out at his mother's cafe listening to stories from the cowboys who had brought their cattle by trains to the stockyards. A teacher noticed his art talent and got him a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute's Saturday children's classes. At age 14, he ran away from home to Wyoming where he worked at a lumber company and on a ranch. He regarded these exper... Read full biography
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About Harry Andrew Jackson: Keywords
Keywords (53)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •New York School/Abstract Expressionism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •American Flag Images
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Caricatures
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Statue Sculpture
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League
- •Cowboy Artists of America
- •National Sculpture Society
Art Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann
Art School
- •Brooklyn Museum Art School/Institute, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •Horse Subject Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League-
- •Cowboy Artists of America-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Academy of Western Art-
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Buffalo Bill Art Show
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts