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William Leigh

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William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) was active/lived in New York, Maryland, West Virginia / Germany.  William Leigh is known for Frontier genre, landscape and animal paintings.

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 Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt".

He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.

In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he was not a very successful artist in those years in New York.

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for William Leigh available:    Frank Tenney Johnson,  W Herbert (Buck) Dunton,  Ernest Martin Hennings,  Oscar Berninghaus,  Walter Ufer,  Joseph Henry Sharp,  Eanger Irving Couse,  Ernest Leonard Blumenschein,  Gerard Curtis Delano,  Bert Geer Phillips,  Olaf Carl Wieghorst,  Victor Higgins,  Henry Francois Farny,  Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin,  Maynard Dixon,  William Bill Gollings,  Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius,  Frederic Sackrider Remington,  Laverne Nelson Black,  Fremont F Ellis,  Olaf Carl Seltzer,  Leon Gaspard,  Charles Marion Russell,  Thomas Moran



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Keywords and Quick Facts for William Leigh


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • Royal Academy of the Arts, England
Art Method
  • Diorama, Museum Display Background
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • Europe
  • Germany Before 1900
  • Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Hopi Reservation, Arizona
  • Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona
  • Mystic, Connecticut
  • Navajo Reservation (Arizona and New Mexico)
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Niagara Falls
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
  • Virginia Before 1900
  • West Virginia Before 1920
  • Yellowstone National Park
Art Association
  • Allied Artists of America-
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City
Art School
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
  • German Academies Before 1900
  • Grand Central School of Art, Student
  • Maryland Institute of Design, College of Art, Student
  • Traphagen School of Design, Student
  • Traphagen School of Design-Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anschutz Collection
  • C. R. Smith Collection-Western
  • Harmsen Western Art Collection
  • J.L Hubbell Collection, Arizona
  • John F Eulich Collection
  • Picerne Arizona Landmark Collection
  • Santa Fe Railroad Commissioned Art
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
  • Walter Bimson Western Art Collection
  • William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
  • Animal Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • COLLIER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
  • Genre Specialty
  • Grand Canyon Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Railroad Promotion Commissioned Artist
  • SCRIBNER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
  • Western Subject Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • AskART Panama Pacific Expo
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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