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Harold Bugbee, a brand of his own

Cover titleTexas artistHarold Dow Bugbee was born in Massachusetts in 1900. The family purchased a 1,000 ranch in 1912 and moved to Clarendon, in the Texas Panhandle in 1914. Due to his father's illness he left Texs A&M in 1918 to help run the ranch. He also cowboyed on other ranches and even took a herd to Kansas City in the 1920s. Considered a very good calf roper he also honed his skills as an artist sketching on on any available paper. He got some formal art training and returned to Texas in 1922 to cowboy and paint what he loved, landscape and wildlife of Texas, and Indians and cowboys. He was friends with Frank Collinson and Charles Goodnight. He died in 1963. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum, the Cattleman's Museum in Fort Worth and many moreIllustrations of 49 paintings and drawings executed between 1918 and 1962Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at William Reaves Fine Art, HoustonEssay by Michael R. Grauer"Michael R. Grauer, March 2010"--P. 7"Exhibition checklist": pages 9-10

38 pages, color illustrations, 28 cm.

(OCoLC)ocn605958817