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Museums page for William Leigh ((1866 - 1955)), known for Frontier genre, landscape and animal paintings. Showing 32 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1866 Berkeley County, West Virginia - 1955 New York City. Known for: Frontier genre, landscape and animal paintings.
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of... Read full biography
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of... Read full biography
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883... Read full biography
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York... Read full biography
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he w... Read full biography
William Leigh - Artist Info
About William Leigh: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (32)
All MuseumsAutry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338Booth Western Art Museum
501 N. Museum Dr
Po Box 3070
Cartersville, GA 30120Buffalo Bill Center of the West
720 Sheridan Ave
Cody, WY 82414Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Desert Caballeros Western Museum
21 N. Frontier St.
Wickenburg, AZ 85390Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians-Western Art
500 West Washington
Indianapolis, IN 46204Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Box 466
Rockland, ME 04841-0466Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, IA 52804-4520Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Heckscher Museum of Art
2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743Helmerich Cntr. for American Research, Gilcrease Museum,Univ. of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, OK 74127-2100Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
P.O. Box 150
Ganado, AZ 86505Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado, 8
Madrid, SpainNational Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
1700 Ne 63rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73111National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Museum of Wildlife Art
2820 Rungius Road
Po Box 6825
Jackson Hole, WY 83002Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Sangre De Cristo Arts Center
210 N Santa Fe Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81003Stark Museum of Art
712 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Rockwell Museum
111 Cedar Street
Corning, NY 14830-2694The Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art
309 Main Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Tucson Museum of Art
140 N. Main Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85718University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423Witte Museum
3801 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209Woolaroc Museum
The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc.
1925 Woolaroc Ranch Road
Bartlesville, OK 74003