Bill Schenck
Bill Schenck, Last Horizon, Serigraph
1991

About the Item

Last Horizon, 1991 Bill Schenck Serigraph, Printers Proof Size: 27.75 x 29.75 inches Billy Schenck has been known internationally for 44 years as one of the originators of the contemporary "Pop" western movement. Schenck has had over 100 solo shows and is included in 44 museum collections. He is an American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Career highlights for the artist include the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West exhibit, the Denver Art Museum’s “Western Horizons” and a retrospective of serigraphs created by Schenck from 1971 through 1996 at the Tucson Museum of Art. Museum collections include the Mesa Southwest Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Private collections include the estate of Malcolm Forbes, Steve Forbes, Chris Evert, Elaine Horwitch, Louis Meisel, Martina Navratilova, Laurance Rockefeller, the estate of Fritz Scholder and Sylvester Stallone. Corporate collections include: American Airlines, I.B.M., Raymond James Financial, Wells Fargo Bank, Hilton Hotels, Sturm Ruger and The National Bank of Switzerland. “What has remained constant throughout Schenck’s career is his individuality in dealing with the subject matter of the west. Using the artistic formula of classic western film direction and the photographically reliant systems of contemporary art, he has bridged two genres that resonate with the American experience. From early depictions of cinematic cowboys to real-life cowboys and cowgirls to poetic reveries about the Native American existence in the Southwest, Schenck melds the real with the imagined, autobiography with fantasy.” Julie Sasse, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art Education: 1965-1967 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio 1967-1969 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2014 "The Myth of the West," Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2013 Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2011 Tucson Museum of Art, "Bill Schenck Serigraphs 1971-1996 Retrospective", Tucson, AZ 2010 The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Bill Schenck Serigraphs 1971-1996 Retrospective, Idaho Falls, ID 2010 Strong Schenck Galleries, Bill Schenck: "New Paintings", Santa Fe, NM 2010 Strong Schenck Galleries, "Bill Schenck New Paintings", Scottsdale, AZ 2009 Strong Schenck Galleries, Grand Opening Solo Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Tadu Contemporary/Schenck Southwest, "'Till the End of Time" Graffiti paintings, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Booth Western Art Museum, "Post Apocalyptic Pop", Cartersville, GA 2002 West Valley Museum, "New Directions", Surprize, Arizona 2001 Museum of the Southwest, "Point of Departure", Midland, Texas 1996 Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, Ten Year Retrospective, "The West as it Never Was", St. Joseph, Missouri 1990 Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, "Bill Schenck, A 10 Year Retrospective 1980 - 1990" 1987 Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah 1983 Scottsdale Center for the Arts, "Bill Schenck 1968-83, 15 Year Retrospective", Scottsdale, Arizona 1978 West Nebraska Arts Center, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 1975-76 Concord Courthouse Bicentennial Exhibition, Concord, Massachusetts 1971 "100 + 101" Loft Exhibition, New York, New York Selected Group Exhibitions: 2019 "Along the Distant Mesa: An Homage to Maynard Dixon" Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2019 "Night of the Artists," Briscoe Western Art Museum 2017 "25th Anniversary Celebration" Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2014 “Night of the Artists” The Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TX 2014 Museum of Fine Arts “New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment, St. Petersburg, FL 2014 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA 2013 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum “Small Works, Great Wonders,” Oklahoma City, OK 2013 “The West Select” Phoenix Art Museum, AZ 2013 NM Museum of Art, “Back in the Saddle”, Santa Fe, NM, curated by John Torres Nez and Joseph Traugott 2013 Briscoe Western Art Museum, “Night of Artists”, San Antonio, TX 2013 The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction group, “March in Montana”, Great Falls, MT 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, “Bierstadt To Warhol: American Indians in the West”, Salt Lake City, UT 2012 The West Gallery, “Grand Opening”, Berlin, Germany 1983 Alberta College of Art Gallery, "2nd Annual Wild West Show", Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1982 Centro De Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Mexico 1976 Grand Hornu Gallery, "U.S.A. Contemporary Artists", Grand Hornu, Belgium 1976 "U.S.A. Contemporary Artists", Mons, Belgium 1976 Fiore Internationale D'Art, Group Show, Comtebrain, Paris, France 1974 Gallery Moos, Ltd., "Aspects of Realism", Toronto, Canada 1974 Gallerie Trois Porte, Mons, Belgium Selected Museum Collections: Superstition Mountain Historical Museum, Apache Junction, Arizona Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, Arizona Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenberg, Arizona The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Anaheim, California Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Housatonic Community College, Westport, Connecticut Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. The Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID Notre Dame Business College, Bloomington, Indiana Midwest Museum, Elkhart, Indiana Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana Brandeis University Museum, Boston, Massachusetts Babson College Art Collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Pickard Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio C.B. Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma Fred Jones Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Rose Art Museum, Richmond, Virginia Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, Washington Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming The Nelson Museum of Western Art, Cheyenne, Wyoming Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington West Texas A & M University, Canyon, Texas Selected Public Collections: University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, Tucson, Arizona Arizona State University Libraries Special Collections, Tempe, Arizona Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona St. Luke's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona Edward Shaw Cancer Clinic, Vail Hospital, Vail, Colorado Presbyterian Ear Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico Governor's Mansion, Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico Lander Valley Medical Center, Lander, Wyoming Sam and Diane Stewart Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah St. John’s Medical Center, Jackson, Wyoming Selected Corporate Collections: American Airlines, Phoenix, Arizona Jim Simmons (United Bank), Phoenix, Arizona Valley National Bank, Phoenix, Arizona Est, Est, Scottsdale, Arizona I.B.M., Tucson, Arizona United California Bank, Los Angeles, California Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, California Art Programs, San Francisco, California Hilton Hotel, Grand Junction, Colorado McDonald's Corporation , Chicago, Illinois Bob Burnett (Meredith Corporation), Des Moines, Iowa Pioneer Car Stereo, Tokyo, Japan Suntory Liquors , Tokyo, Japan Sturn Ruger Corporation, New Jersey Security Pacific Bank, New York, New York National Bank of Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland First Interstate Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah Jackson State Bank, Jackson, Wyoming Mountain Bell, Laramie, Wyoming Northern Trust Bank, Phoenix, Arizona Raymond James Financial Collection, St. Petersburg, Florida Vermillion Editions Limited, Amarillo, Texas

Creator:
Bill Schenck (1947, American)
Creation Year:
1991
Dimensions:
Height: 27.75 in (70.49 cm)Width: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)
Medium:
Screen
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Phoenix, AZ
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2623215173772

Bill Schenck
Red Rider by Bill Schenck, 1981

$6,000

2 Lazy 2 P

Located in Phoenix, AZ

2 Lazy 2P, ca. 1939 Lon Megargee Serigraph 20 x 24 inches Signed in screen Original serigraph print by Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940 Lon Megargee created this serigraph from his commission with Oren Arnold and John Hale to do their dust jacket for the book, " Hot Irons", 1940. Arnold and Hale wanted to establish a reference work, an "authority", with a entertaining history about the evolution of the brand. Megargee created a painting of a steer that was branded with the script, 2 Lazy 2 P. Surrounding the steer is a random display of famous brands of ranches in the Southwest. It was well received and must have prompted Megargee to create the likeness as a print. The brand is described in chapter thirteen, page 207-208 and says, " Ed Stram, who was Arizona state veterinarian for sixteen years, fire-branded his cattle with this peculiar crest. It isn't peculiar unless you have an equally peculiar sense of humor. At a glance it appears to be just another typically unimaginative brand, but it has been used to make many a thousand girls blush, and a few thousand bashful young men as well". COLLIER GALLERY, FINE ART ESTATE OF LON MEGARGEE Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular hotel and dining place called the Hermosa Inn. Megargee was a ranch owner and also did oil canvases of the places he loved and the cowboy life he admired. By 1910, he was among the earliest resident artists, and was probably the best known artist in Arizona. His name was first associated with a landscape series of 15 large murals for the Capitol Building, newly constructed just after Arizona became a state in 1912. Another one of his paintings, Elemental, was the first painting by an artist living in Arizona to be acquired for the Municipal Collection of Phoenix. These works were chosen from entries in the State Fair, where he continued to win prizes for figure and landscape painting. From 1911 to 1953, he did numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad, including a work titledNavajos Watching a Santa Fe Train. Between 1915 and 1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area of California and had entries in the California State Fair. He died in Cottonwood, Arizona. After his death, theSaturday Evening Post had a double-page reproduction of his painting Cowboy's Dream. Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee We offer signed in print and original signature block prints. Custom, hand carved, signature frames, with archival standards and a speciality in hand dyed mats and french matting are provided for a beautiful and timeless presentation. Megargee explored different mediums; printmaking captivated him in particular. The contrast of the black and white block print method captured perfectly his interpretation of a bold American West. The first print was produced around 1921 and culminated with the creation of “The Cowboy Builds a Loop” in 1933 with 28 images and poetry by his friend, Roy George. Megargee continued producing prints throughout the 1940s and early 50s. At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...

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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

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