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H.D. Bugbee Art Exhibit Opening

Sat, Feb 08

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Bosque Museum

Traveling Exhibit: H.D. Bugbee Art Exhibit Opens

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H.D. Bugbee Art Exhibit Opening
H.D. Bugbee Art Exhibit Opening

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Feb 08, 2020, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Bosque Museum, 301 South Avenue Q, Clifton, TX, USA

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Though he spent his childhood in Lexington, Massachusetts, Harold D. Bugbee (1900-1963) came of age in the Texas Panhandle after his family moved to Clarendon in 1914. There, they joined a cousin—cattleman T.S. Bugbee—on his ranch outside town. A budding artist, Bugbee began sketching life on the ranch, a childhood talent which blossomed into a career. He spent summers at the Taos Art Colony and graduated in 1921 from the four-year Cumming School of Art in Des Moines, Iowa after only two years as a student.

During the 1920s, Bugbee exhibited in galleries in Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York but turned to magazine work when sales declined during the Great Depression. It was during this period that his illustrations began to appear in publications like Western Stories, Country Gentleman, and Field and Stream, as well as Western history books including Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman by J. Evetts…

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