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Raphael Lillywhite (1891-1958)

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Raphael Lillywhite (1891-1958)
North Park
38" x 64 3/8"
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
Framed to 48" x 74 34"

Raphael Lillywhite (1891 - 1958)

Raphael Lillywhite was an American painter of western scenes born in Woodruff, Arizona in 1891. He was raised by parents who operated a trading post along the Little Colorado River and was named Raphael after the famous artist. He was educated in Mormon schools and graduated from the University of Utah. He studied art with Gonzales and Ed Tigera in Sonora, Mexico. After his studies, Lillywhite and his wife moved to Walden, Colorado, where he painted scenes of ranch life and the Old West, an interest that began with his early exposure to pack trains and Indians.
In 1943 he moved to Laramie, Wyoming where he continued the remainder of his painting career.