Making a Hand
The Art of H. D. Bugbee
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2019
Book
Hardback
132 pages
978-1-62349-805-4 (ISBN)
Description
Sometime in 1947, a letter arrived in the mailbox of Harold Dow Bugbee, already a well-known and highly sought illustrator for western pulp magazines and other publications. "Sir," it began, "I have seen several of your pictures in the Cattleman. Sure like them and I am writing you to ask if you have all of your pictures in a book-if you do-we want to buy one."
"After seventy years of waiting," writes Michael R. Grauer in this colorful survey of Bugbee's life and career, "here is such a book."
Bugbee and his family arrived in Clarendon, Texas, in 1914, from Massachusetts. He helped his father with the 1,000-acre family ranch and eventually attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where he studied architectural drawing. Subsequently, he enrolled at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines, Iowa, but left after two years when the founder of the school told the young Texan that he had learned all the school had to offer.
Bugbee avidly absorbed cowboy scenes and the lifestyle that birthed them. He filled canvases with colorful, authentic images that capture the spirit of the American West of the early to mid-1900s, especially in and near his beloved Texas Panhandle. By the 1930s, Bugbee was providing pen-and-ink sketches for magazines such as Ranch Romances, Western Stories, Country Gentleman, and Field and Stream.
This richly illustrated overview of the man and his art provides a valuable and entertaining resource for collectors and students of western and Texas art.
"After seventy years of waiting," writes Michael R. Grauer in this colorful survey of Bugbee's life and career, "here is such a book."
Bugbee and his family arrived in Clarendon, Texas, in 1914, from Massachusetts. He helped his father with the 1,000-acre family ranch and eventually attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where he studied architectural drawing. Subsequently, he enrolled at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines, Iowa, but left after two years when the founder of the school told the young Texan that he had learned all the school had to offer.
Bugbee avidly absorbed cowboy scenes and the lifestyle that birthed them. He filled canvases with colorful, authentic images that capture the spirit of the American West of the early to mid-1900s, especially in and near his beloved Texas Panhandle. By the 1930s, Bugbee was providing pen-and-ink sketches for magazines such as Ranch Romances, Western Stories, Country Gentleman, and Field and Stream.
This richly illustrated overview of the man and his art provides a valuable and entertaining resource for collectors and students of western and Texas art.
Reviews / Votes
"From Bugbee's early years in the Texas Panhandle to his artistic accomplishments throughout the country, Michael Grauer has given us a wonderful and beautiful book. His feel for Bugbee's career and for the artist's love of the West are strong and deep -- and they come through on every page. Those connections come alive in this welcome biography of a true American 'cowboy artist.'"- Bonney MacDonald, from the forewordMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 black & white photographs, 38 art
Dimensions
Height: 263 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
755 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62349-805-4 (9781623498054)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Michael R. Grauer is the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is the coauthor of Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 and the author of Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man.