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Winold (Fritz Winold) Reiss

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Winold (Fritz Winold) Reiss (1886 - 1953) was active/lived in New York, Montana, Nevada / Germany.  Winold Reiss is known for Indian portrait and mural painting, illustration.

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 Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits.  He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard.

In Munich, he studied at the Royal Academy and the Art School, and having been impressed by novels of James Fenimore Cooper, came to the United States in 1913 with the purpose of painting Indians like those he had read about.

He arrived in New York City with little money and realized he was still a distance from Indian country, so he first got established as a portrait, landscape, and mural painter, art teacher, and interior designer.  In the latter capacity, he successfully decorated several restaurants and other public buildings and had a commission for the Hotel Crillon. All of this activity allowed him to save money for travel.

In 1919, he went West, visiting the Blackfeet Indians who made him an honorary member of the tribe, naming him "Beaver Child."  He r   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13655 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Winold (Fritz Winold) Reiss

   Publications  Book References:  47
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Winold (Fritz Winold) Reiss
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Winold Reiss: Artist for the Great August 2005 Tanner & Engh-Grady Yes
Art Times Culturally Speaking August 2004 Seckel, Cornelia No
Southwest Art The Roaring Twenties April 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Art in America Import/Export: Variations in Noir April 1998 Duncan, Michael Yes
American Artist Exhibits April 1998 Moss, E Lynne Yes
American Art Review Art of the Harlem Renaissance April 1998 Powell, Richard J Yes
Southwest Art Bottom Line November 1996 Brown, Margaret L Yes
American Art Review To Color America June 1994 AR editors Yes
47 Book References for Winold (Fritz Winold) Reiss
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2019 Peterson, Larry Len Blackfeet John L. "Cutapuis" Clarke and the Silent Call of Glacier National Park: America's Wood Sculptor 440 Yes
2015 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len John Fery: Artist of Glacier National Park & The American West 288 Yes
2007 Scriver, Mary Strachan Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver 368 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Tanner, SJ & Engh-Grady, L Winold Reiss: Artist for the Great Northern 20 Yes
2003 Tierney, Curtis (editor) Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper 71 Yes
2002 Peterson, Larry Len The Call of the Mountains The Artists of Glacier National Park 144 Yes
2000 Tierney, Curtis (Editor) Recounting the Old West: Gallery Selections-Thomas Nygard Gallery 44 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
1997 Hagerty, Donald J Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors 213 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1995 Kirschke, Amy Helene Aaron Douglas Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaisance 166 No
1995 Watson, Steven The Harlem Renaissance Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 225 No
1993 Oles, James/Karen Reiman South of the Border Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947 296 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Stewart, Jeffrey C Winold Reiss An Illustrated Checklist of His Portraits 100 No
1989 Stewart, Jeffrey C To Color America Portraits by Winold Reiss
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Woodstock Art Association Woodstock's Art Heritage Permanent Collection Woodstock A A 176 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1983 Cunningham, Elizabeth Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection 152 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Anschutz Collection Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro) American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1972 Ewers, John C Winold Reiss Plains Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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