California, Iowa. 1874 - 1939
Western genre, landscape, and nocturne painting
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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
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New Mexico, Maine. 1878 - 1936
Western genre and figure painting, illustration
Illinois, New Mexico. 1886 - 1956
Landscape, Indian genre and figure painting
New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas. 1874 - 1952
Landscape and genre painting, illustration
New Mexico. 1876 - 1936
Social realist landscape, figure, portrait and Indian genre painting, lithography
New Mexico, California, Ohio. 1859 - 1953
Indian figure, landscape and still-life painting
New Mexico, New York, Michigan / France. 1866 - 1936
Indian figure and genre painting, illustration
New Mexico, New York. 1874 - 1960
Indian figure and landscape painting, illustration
Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts. 1890 - 1972
Indian genre and landscape painting, illustration
New Mexico, California. 1868 - 1956
Southwest Indian figure, landscape and genre painting
California / Denmark. 1899 - 1988
Western-Indian-genre, horses
New Mexico, Illinois, Indiana. 1884 - 1949
Indian genre, landscape and portrait painting
Ohio, California / France. 1847 - 1916
Indians, frontier life, illustrator, pottery decoration
New Mexico, California / Russian Federation. 1881 - 1955
Portrait, figure and genre painting, wood carving
California, Arizona. 1875 - 1946
Western landscape painting-skyscapes, Indians
Wyoming, Idaho. 1878 - 1932
Western genre-figure, animal, etcher
New York, Wyoming / Canada. 1869 - 1959
Wildlife and landscape painting, illustration, etching
New York, Kansas, Connecticut. 1861 - 1909
Western painting and sculpture, illustration
New Mexico, Illinois, Wisconsin. 1887 - 1938
Indian-western genre painting, illustration
New Mexico, California. 1897 - 1985
Landscape and Indian painting, graphics
Montana / Denmark. 1877 - 1957
Frontier and Indian genre paitning, illustration
New Mexico / France, Africa, Russian Federation. 1882 - 1964
Figure, street-landscape, and genre painting
Montana, California, Missouri. 1864 - 1926
Indian-frontier genre painting, sculpture
Pennsylvania, California. 1837 - 1926
Landscape and marine painting, topography
Wyoming, Ontario / Canada. 1907 - 1989
Genre-west, wildlife, illustrations
New Mexico, California. 1869 - 1934
Western-Indian genre and historical mural painting
New York, California, Massachusetts, Kansas / Germany. 1830 - 1902
Romanticized western landscape paintings, photography
New Jersey, New York, Montana / Germany. 1878 - 1938
Genre-western-Indian, illustrator, photographer
California. 1872 - 1945
Western genre and horse painting, illustration
New York, New Mexico. 1909 - 1997
Western genre painting, magazine and pulp illustrator
Kansas, Colorado / Sweden. 1871 - 1954
Abstract richly colored landscape and still life painting
Maryland. 1810 - 1874
Trapper-Indian genre, portrait, mountain landscapes