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Original Cowboy Acrylic Painting by W. Howard Hamm (d. 2000)

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana / Art - Cowboy Art Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 150.00 USD
Original Cowboy Acrylic Painting by W. Howard Hamm (d. 2000)
Original Cowboy Acrylic Painting by W. Howard Hamm, on board, framed, visual measures 23.5" x 15.5", FYI: "Hamm flourished in the 1930s in Valley Falls, W. Howard Hamm was active/lived in Kansas. He was known as a Graphic artist. Artist Info: W. Howard Hamm a man of varied talents, was the man who built Trail Dust Town. 'I thought Tucson was booming and needed to hold onto some of the atmosphere of the Old West,' Hamm said in a 1985 Tucson Citizen article. Born on a family farm in Pratt, Kan., Hamm studied at the Kansas City Art institute. A lifelong artist, he specialized in images of Native Americans, the Sonoran Desert and the Kansas prairie. After doctors discovered, in 1939, that Hamm had a heart defect, he was advised to move to a drier climate. An ad in the Kansas City Star caught his eye: A new florist shop in Bisbee was looking for a manager. The promise of a job was all the motivation he needed to move to Arizona. After a couple of years he moved to Tucson, where he made ends meet by pumping gas; running the poster department for Consolidated Vultee, a firm that built military aircraft; and working as head draftsman for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. After creating Trail Dust Town, he moved south and started the Southwest Traildust Zoo near Bisbee, which was in operation until 1975. At one time, the zoo had the largest collection of reptiles in Arizona. Hamm died April 14, 2000, in Wickenburg. He was 91."