Billyo O'Donnell

The Grand Canyon

c. 2000

Roy Andersen (b. 1930) "Old High Country Woman" Oil on Canvas 12 x 16 inches 21.5 x 25 inches framed Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen did paintings of Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians. He began his career living in Chicago and New York and working as an illustrator. He did numerous covers for Time Magazine including portraits of Albert Einstein and Prince Fahd. He also did illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and did a stamp series on Dogs and American Horses, and in 1984 and 1985, won Stamp of the Year Award. As a muralist, he has filled commissions for the National Park Service, the Royal Saudi Naval Headquarters, and the E.E. Fogelson Vistor Center at Pecos National Monument in New Mexico. To pursue his talent for painting, Roy Anderson went West, living in Arizona and settling in Cave Creek. In 1990, he was voted official artist for Scottsdale's Parada del Sol, the "world's largest" horse-drawn parade commemorating the Old West. Andersen grew up on an apple farm in New Hampshire and learned about Indian customs from his many hours spent at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. He is meticulous about being historically accurate in his paintings. Of him it was written: "There are no 'happy accidents' in an Andersen painting. He has a knowledge of his subject that is attained only through extensive research. You will not find an Apache medicine bag...

Laverne Nelson Black (American, 1887-1938) "The Deer Hunters" Signed Lower Left Canvas: 24 x 22 inches Framed: 30.5 x 28.5 inches Born in Viola,...

Mid-day, Zuni Village, 1897 By. Frank Reed Whiteside (American, 1866-1929) Unframed: 20" x 30" Framed: 28" x 38" Frank Reed Whiteside, born in Philadelphia on 20 August 1867, became a student of Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1888-92). He already began exhibiting there during his student years (1887-98). In 1893, he enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris where he received instruction from Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After his French academic training, Whiteside taught art in Philadelphia high schools. He took frequent trips to the Southwest between 1890 and 1928 to live with and paint the Zuni Indians. Whiteside depicted ceremonial dances, Zuni buildings, and other genre scenes, usually in blinding afternoon sunlight. He carefully observed the effects of light on vibrant color, using a finely crafted impressionist technique. He was fond of broad areas of color, subtle combinations of hues, and simplified shapes and silhouettes. Whiteside continued to exhibit at the PAFA (1905-15), at the Art Institute of Chicago (1896-1916), at the Carnegie International (1905 and 1907) and at the Corcoran Gallery (1907). He was a member of Philadelphia art societies and beginning in 1909 had a summer studio in Ogunquit, Maine, where he took part in Hamilton Easter Field's discussion groups. Frank's wife, Clara Walker Whiteside, who published Touring New England in 1926, was active in the Ogunquit Art Association. Like Stanford White, Frank Reed Whiteside was the victim of murder, on 19 September 1929, but Whiteside's case remains unsolved. One night, the sixty-three year-old painter answered the doorbell. Two witnesses...

Charles Harold Davis (1856-1933) "Gray Brothers" Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Canvas Size: 30 x 24 inches Framed Size: 35 x 30.5 inches Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles ...

"Grand Canyon Series" is an oil on panel painting by Sheldon Orrin Parsons, painted in 1943. The work is signed in the lower left, “Sheldon Parsons 16”...

Vintage Grand Canyon Impressionist Landscape Majestic impressionist landscape of the Grand Canyon in beautiful vivid colors by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). The viewer...

South Rim, Grand Canyon. Artist sighed lower right. About artist: Richard H. Tashjian Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. in 1926, Richard served in the U.S.N.R. World War II 1944-46 as a photographer and later graduated from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, 1950. He studied design under Prof. Gyorgy Kepes at M.I.T. School of Visual Design Architectural Center Cambridge, MA. Richard’s talents resulted in a successful career in advertising art, where he worked as a commercial artist and art director for various distinguished ad agencies throughout the Boston area. For several years, he owned and operated an art studio and gallery in Watertown, MA. While continuing to depict nature in his harmonious style that utilizes layers of color. He brings a passion for the natural world and international perspective to his paintings. His brush has rendered scenes in the Crimea and the south of France. Having moved to Santa Fe New Mexico recently he has already made canyons, mesas and skies of the Southwest his own. EDUCATION: Museum School  of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1950 MILITARY: World War II, U.S. Naval Reserve 1944-46 SELECTED AWARDS: A.S.A. Ara S. Boyan Award in Humanities                        1975 for the contribution to Living Arts-Bromall, PA. Stone & Webster Arts Festival, Boston, MA.                               1978 First Prize-Watercolor Medium                                        1979 First Prize-Graphic Prints Visiting Artist Honored Medal                                                     1990 100th Anniversary of Hovhaness Aivasofski July 22, 1990, Theodosia Crimea Russia SELECTED One Man Shows: Brockton Art Fuller Memorial Museum Brockton, MA       1972 Secretary of State Office-Boston, MA State House         1975 Newton Public Library Newton, MA                                 1978 AGBU Art Gallery New York                                           1979 Armenian Library and Museum of America                      1990 Watertown, MA. Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     1997 Grunthal Gallery, Taos, NM.                                            1999 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     2002 Paxton McCall Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.                           2002 Wilder Nightingale fine Art, Taos, NM.                             2002 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                      2006 PUBLICATIONS: Ararat Quarterly Issue No. 53 AGBU NY.                          1970 The American Review...

A painting by Dewitt Parshall. ""Hermit Creek Canyon, Grand Canyon"" is a modern landscape painting, oil on canvas in an earth-tone palette by Dewitt P...