Archie Musick
| Archie Musick | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Archie Leroy Musick 19 January 1902 Kirksville, Missouri |
| Died | 8 April 1978 (aged 76) Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Broadmoor Art Academy Thomas Hart Benton Stanton MacDonald-Wright |
| Known for | Painting, Illustrator |
| Movement | Regionalist |
Archie Leroy Musick (1902–1978) was an American painter. He studied under Thomas Hart Benton, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, and Boardman Robinson.
Archie Musick was born January 19, 1902 in Kirksville, Missouri, to parents Levi Prince Musick and Zada (Goeghegan) Musick. He attended Kirksville schools and later Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now known as Truman State University. In 1947 he married Irene Kolodziej, who was head of the ceramics department at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and they were the parents of two children, Patricia Ruth Musick and Daniel Barrett Musick. After Irene's death he married Jane Wyeth Knight. Archie Musick was the brother of author and folklorist Ruth Ann Musick as well as the nephew of author John R. Musick.
His first major mural, "Hard Rock Miners," (1934) (5”x14”) was funded by the Public Works of Art Project and may be seen in the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where for many years he was the art instructor at the Cheyenne Mountain School. Musick’s work can be seen as well in the Red Cloud, Nebraska Post Office, the Manitou Springs, Colorado post office, and also at his alma mater, Truman State University (B.Sc; then Northeast Missouri State Teachers’ College). He was commissioned by the class of 1928 to paint the snow-covered ruins of Old Baldwin Hall, destroyed in a 1924 fire. He described his first private mural commissions (well before the New Deal-funded ones) as "scenic pot-boilers on restaurant walls, (which) were happily destroyed by fire." He spent most of his career in Colorado, with a year (1946-7) teaching at the University of Missouri and several years after that teaching at another Missouri university. The post office murals were funded by the New Deal Section of Fine Art program; the Red Cloud mural was painted in 1941 and the Manitou Springs one, "Hunters red and White," in 1942. In the course of creating "Hunters Red and White," Archie developed the signature egg tempera/colored pencil technique that he used for smaller paintings throughout the rest of his life.
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