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1890 St. Paul, Minnesota - 1964 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Southwest landscape, genre, history and portrait painting.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From that institution, he won a Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe in 1913 and 1914. Because of tuberculosis, he went West to Utah and Nevada and in 1916 to Albuquerque where... Read full biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements. He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From that institution, he won a Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe in 1913 and 1914. Because of tuberculosis, he went West to Utah and Nevada and in 1916 to Albuquerque where he worked as a commercial illustrator and began selling his first paintings. Wanting to get a better understanding of the Ind... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Ink
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Adobe Structures, Pueblos
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Caricatures
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Litchfield, Connecticut
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Cresson Traveling Scholarship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Santa Fe Railroad Commissioned Art
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Santa Fe Artist Colony
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts