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Original William Robinson Leigh Painting

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Original William Robinson Leigh Painting
Original William Robinson Leigh Painting, overall framed measurement 19.5''W x 27.5''L, visual measures 23.5''L x 15.5'', ca. early 1900s, Artist's Bio: William Robinson Leigh ( 1866-1955 ) was born in West Virginia in 1866 and spent his boyhood on a farm. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the Maryland Institute in Baltimore to begin his art training. Although from a very poor family, he managed to spend twelve years in Europe where he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Upon returning to the United States he opened a studio in New York and did illustrations for ''Scribner's Magazine''. It was not until he was forty years old that he was able to see the West which had occupied his thoughts for such a long time. His bold use of color depicted the clear light and brilliant hues of the West as he saw it. It was during this phase of his career that he came to be known as the ''Sagebrush Rembrandt''. He painted in the Southwest nearly every summer between 1912 and 1926.''