Art for Sale

Charlie Dye

Charlie Dye (1906 - 1972) was active/lived in Arizona, Colorado.  Charlie Dye is known for Cowboy-western genre painting, magazine illustration.

Born in Canon City, Colorado, Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the painting of Charles Russell.

From childhood, he was a sketcher, but it wasn't until a horse fell on him that he considered art as a career.  In the hospital recovering from his injuries, he saw reproductions of Russell's paintings in a magazine, and that exposure set his career of portraying the lives of cattlemen.

Charlie Dye worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California until he was 21 and then enrolled in Chicago at the Art Institute and the American Academy.  In 1936, he moved to New York City to work as a magazine illustrator and took lessons from Harvey Dunn, known as a great illustrator.  He also worked with Felix Schmidt in a commercial studio.

Dye was a successful illustrator in New York, doing assignments for Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, Outdoor Life and The American Weekly.  However, a trip to California al   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4239 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 280 auction lots for Charlie Dye (of which 236 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 4 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 13 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Charlie Dye as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Charlie Dye in 1 of its research Essays. Charlie Dye has 16 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Charlie Dye available:    John Ford Clymer,  Tom Lovell,  William Bill Gollings,  Joe Beeler,  Frank C McCarthy,  James Boren,  John Wade Hampton,  Robert Lougheed,  R Brownell McGrew,  Nick Eggenhofer,  Kenneth Pauling Riley,  Martin Grelle,  Gerard Curtis Delano,  Roy Andersen,  Olaf Carl Seltzer,  James (Jim) Elwood Reynolds,  Frank B Hoffman,  Henry Cornelius Balink,  Edgar Samuel Paxson,  Clark Hulings,  William Acheff,  Robert Griffing,  Ken Carlson,  W Herbert (Buck) Dunton