Harold Dow Bugbee
| Harold Dow Bugbee | |
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| Born |
August 15, 1900 Lexington, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | March 27, 1963 (aged 62) Clarendon, Donley County, Texas |
| Occupation | Artist; Curator of Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Katherine Patrick Bugbee (m. 1935) (divorced) |
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(1) Bugbee began sketching Western ranching scenes while still a boy living on the family ranch near Clarendon, Texas. (2) Bugbee envisioned himself as the South Plains complement to Charles M. Russell, renowned Western painter of the northern Great Plains. (3) Bugbee was closely associated with historian J. Evetts Haley and former Amarillo Mayor Ernest O. Thompson for whom he did illustrations and paintings, respectively. (4) Perhaps Bugbee's greatest mural is The Cattleman at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, where he was the curator from 1951 until his death. |
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(1) Katherine Patrick Bugbee (m. 1935) (divorced)
(1) Bugbee began sketching Western ranching scenes while still a boy living on the family ranch near Clarendon, Texas.
(2) Bugbee envisioned himself as the South Plains complement to Charles M. Russell, renowned Western painter of the northern Great Plains.
(3) Bugbee was closely associated with historian J. Evetts Haley and former Amarillo Mayor Ernest O. Thompson for whom he did illustrations and paintings, respectively.
Harold Dow Bugbee (August 15, 1900 – March 27, 1963) was an American Western artist, illustrator, painter, and curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. Bugbee sought with considerable success to become the dominant artist of the Texas South Plains, as his role model, Charles M. Russell of Montana, accordingly sketched life of the northern Great Plains.
Bugbee was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, to Charles H. Bugbee and the former Grace L. Dow. In 1914, the family moved to the Texas Panhandle at the suggestion of a cousin, cattleman T.S. Bugbee, and established a ranch near Clarendon, the seat of Donley County east of Amarillo. As a youth, Bugbee began sketching the multiple facets of ranch life hoping to preserve for posterity a rapidly vanishing way of life. His own experiences offered keen insight into ranch living in the Panhandle. Bugbee graduated from Clarendon High School in 1917 and attended then Methodist-affiliated Clarendon College, since a public community college. In 1918, he enrolled at Texas A&M University at College Station.
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