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Western Cowboy Chuckwagon Print by H. D. Bugbee

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana / Art - 20th Century Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:35.00 - 50.00 USD
Western Cowboy Chuckwagon Print by H. D. Bugbee
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Western Cowboy Chuckwagon Print by H. D. Bugbee (1900-1963), measures 20'' x 15'', signed in lower right corner H D Bugbee Artist Bio: Though he spent his childhood in Lexington, Massachusetts, Harold D. Bugbee (1900-1963) came of age in the Texas Panhandle after his family moved to Clarendon in 1914. There, they joined a cousin-the cattleman T.S. Bugbee-on his ranch outside town. A budding artist, Bugbee began sketching life on the ranch and soon that childhood talent blossomed into a career. He spent summers at the Taos Art Colony and, in 1921, graduated from the four-year Cumming School of Art in Des Moines, Iowa, after only two years as a student there. During the 1920s, Bugbee exhibited in galleries in Denver, Chicago, Kansas City and New York, but turned to magazine work when sales declined during the Great Depression. It was during this period that his illustrations began to appear in publications like Western Stories, Country Gentleman and Field and Stream-as well as Western history books including Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman, by J. Evetts Haley. In 1951, Bugbee became curator of art at PPHM. He contributed five murals in Pioneer Hall and eventually gave 200 of his works to our permanent collection.