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Paul Surber Indian Encampment Gouache Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
Paul Surber Indian Encampment Gouache Painting
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6" by 10" unframed, 15 1/4" by 18 1/2" framed. Paul Surber (Born 1942) is active/lives in Montana, New Mexico. Paul Surber is known for Frontier genre, Indians and landscape painting. Paul Surber was born in Redlands CA., in 1942. His first encounter with Indians was in a Parade when he was five years old. Attracted to the colorful and ornate costumes, he went home to draw with his crayons what he had seen. Paul has been drawing and painting Indians ever since. He is known for paintings of Indians and landscapes in oil, acrylic, and gouache. He has spent much of his life living close to the source of his inspiration, the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. Surber now divides his time between Montana and Arizona. Paul has had so many great influences in his lifetime, from a childhood of roaming a museum as a young boy. Once a week his mother would drop him off with a sack lunch, which he would hide in the corner, as he spent the day wandering through the museum with admiration for the newest exhibit. Then a teacher realized that Paul, at a young age, had a learning disability and bought for him his first book on cowboys and Indians. The book instantly caught his interest and making it easier for Paul to learn to read. At a Fourth of July parade featuring Native American costumes Paul’s artistic imagination come to life. He was just five years old. Paul Surber made his way through life. As fate would have it he met an old German master artist who recognized his potential and with great discipline taught him that a good painting came from a good monochrome. He has used this method ever since. He created life long friendships in the art world, most were icons in their knowledge of Indian tribes and customs, which exposed him to original Indian artifacts. He would photograph and revisit time and time again to make sure his vision was represented as accurate as possible. At first, Paul started selling to the public his landscapes in gouache. He would travel mostly in Montana photographing locations along a river, mountain ranges or the prairies which the Indian tribes where believed to have traversed. Then he would add to the painting his vision of teepees, people, horses, drying racks and so on. He then moved to figurative paintings, first with a monochrome then finish with oil or acrylics. Paul’s greatest works are these portraits of chiefs, warriors and sometimes just the common native people. His discipline is never to paint without knowledge and deep understanding of the Native American culture.
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