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Vincent Colyer

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Vincent Colyer (1825 - 1888) was active/lived in Connecticut, California, New York.  Vincent Colyer is known for Landscape and portrait painting, exploration sketches.

Landscape painter Vincent Colyer, born in Bloomingdale, New York, earned a reputation as a serious artist as well as skilled government official.  He is noted for the images he created of the American West, especially Indian subjects, landscapes, and botanical specimens.  In the Eastern United States, he became a noted crayon-portrait artist.

Colyer studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and with painter John Rubens Smith for four years.  From 1848 to 1860, he earned a living doing crayon portraits.  During the Civil War, he served in the medical corps, and in 1866, settled in Darien, Connecticut near his good friend, painter John Kensett (1816-1872).  Shortly thereafter, Colyer served as secretary to the board of United States Indian commissioners in the late 1860s and early 70s, first in the Southwest, and then in Alaska.

He was a visitor to the Territory of Alaska in 1869, and produced solid artistic work while en   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4690 characters.]  Artist bio

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26 Book References for Vincent Colyer
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Chase, Katherin L Brushstrokes on the Plateau An Overview of Anglo Art on the Colorado Plateau 34 Yes
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1973 Baird, Joseph Armstrong The West Remembered
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1971 Rossi, Paul/David Hunt The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute 335 Yes
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Rathbone, Perry T (editor) Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers 280 Yes
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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