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Artist, educator, inventor, and naturalist, Charles Franklin Reaugh (18601945), pronounced Ray, is one of the Southwests earliest and most distinguished artists. Working in the vein of American Impressionism, Reaugh devoted his career to visually documenting the immense unsettled regions of the Southwest before the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on more than one hundred artworks from the Harry Ransom Centers Frank Reaugh collection, as well as public and private collections across the state, the book examines Reaughs mastery of the pastel medium and his sophisticated yet direct approach to landscape painting, particularly the challenges of painting outdoors. Born in Illinois, Reaugh arrived in Texas by covered wagon in 1876 at the age of fifteen and, by the early 1880s, was sketching scenes while riding with cattlemen during the height of Texass historic roundups. The shimmering opalescent color of the vast southwestern plains became a lifelong subject of study for Reaugh, as did the native longhorn, the main protagonist in his visual narrative of the West. A restless and intrepid traveler, Reaugh took sketch trips with students to some of Texass most spectacular and remote

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Author

Peter Mears; Frank Reaugh; Harry Ransom Center

Publisher

University of Texas Press, 2015

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477303634

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts