Frank Reaugh
Charles Franklin "Frank" Reaugh | |
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Inventor ; "Dean of Texas Painters" | |
| Spouse(s) | Never married
(1) As a youth, Reaugh went on cattle drives that awakened his interest in the region. (2) Many of Reaugh's paintings are held by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon .
(3) Based in American Southwest for inspiration for his paintings. |
Charles Franklin Reaugh (December 29, 1860 – May 6, 1945), known as Frank Reaugh, was an American
Early years
Reaugh was born in 1860 near
Art education and career
During the winter of 1884–1885, Reaugh studied at the
Prolific painter
In total, Reaugh created more than seven thousand works. He concentrated on small
His best-known paintings include:
- Watering the Herd (1889)
- The O Roundup (1894)
- Grazing the Herd (1897)
- The Approaching Herd (1902)
- Twenty-Four Hours with the Herd (seven paintings, after 1930)
- Texas Cattle (April 1933, his last major work)[5]
Inventor
Reaugh created his own art materials and tools.
Art instructor
Reaugh established an art school in Dallas in 1897. For many years, Reaugh led groups of art students on sketching expeditions throughout West Texas, ranging into New Mexico and Arizona. His colleagues Charles Peter Bock and Louis Oscar Griffith sometimes accompanied him on these trips.
Many of his students, including Reveau Bassett, Florence McClung, Harry Carnohan, Lucretia Donnell, John Douglass, Olin H. Travis, Edward G. Eisenlohr, Lloyd Goff, Alexandre Hogue, and Josephine Oliver, gained regional and national prominence. Several of these became part of the group known as the Dallas Nine.[2]
In 1900, the Dallas Morning News employed Reaugh as a weekly art commentator and reporter. He taught briefly at Baylor University, and gave illustrated lectures in the art department of Texas Christian University.[7]
Reaugh helped found the Dallas Art Society (which later developed as the Dallas Museum of Art), The Frank Reaugh Art Club, and the Striginian Club. Frank Reaugh also championed the creation of the Dallas Museum of Art in the early twentieth century.
Legacy
Several of his paintings are displayed at the
Having given away most of his possessions, Reaugh died in poverty in Dallas in 1945 at the age of eighty-four. He is buried in Terrell Cemetery.[1]
In 2007, the exhibition The Pastel Range: Frank Reaugh, Ranch Historian was shown at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. In 2015, the Harry Ranson Center in Austin, Texas, staged the retrospective exhibit "Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West" and published the related book, Windows on the West: The Art of Frank Reaugh.
References
- ^ a b c d e "- Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Frank Reaugh". Archived from the original on 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
- ^ a b c "The Frank Reaugh Collection". utexas.edu. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ^ Michael Grauer, Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man
- ^ Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas
- ^ "Frank Reaugh". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
- ^ "TEXAS ARTIST: FRANK REAUGH". Vogt Auction. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
Sources
- Michael R. Grauer. Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man. Denton University of North Texas Press, 2016.
External links
- Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West Archived 2018-12-04 at the Wayback Machine exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015
- Frank Reaugh Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Texas Capitol Historical Art Collection
- Handbook of Texas Online – Charles Franklin Reaugh
- Frank Reaugh Gallery at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
- Frank Reaugh at Askart.com
- Papers, 1902–1960, in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
- The Frank Reaugh digital collection from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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