"A Duryea Wagon Wins the Race, Great Moments in Early American Motoring- SOL"   Lot no. 2682

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By Robert E. Lougheed (1910-1982)

22.00" x 27.25"
Oil on Board
Signed Lower Left
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Robert Lougheed was without a doubt one of the most influential western artists of the last 50 years. He excelled as a teacher and mentor to many of the modern West's most renowned artists. He was a major force in the development of the National Academy of Western Artists, was a member of the Cowboy Artists of America, and led numerous workshops to develop promising artists' ability to paint in "plein air". Even as a child in his native Canada, he had an inherent talent at capturing his natural surroundings and the animals that lived there. He began developing his artistic talent as a teenager taking a correspondence course in drawing. He landed a job with the Toronto Star as an illustrator when he was only nineteen. Eventually, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students League under the tutelage of artist Frank Vincent DuMond, who described him as "the best student, I ever had." After establishing a solid career as an illustrator for such publications as Reader's Digest and Collier's, he began to spend more and more of his time painting western scenes and subjects. In 1967, he moved to New Mexico and devoted his career to western art.



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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Robert E. Lougheed was born on a farm in Ontario, Canada, and from childhood on, his subjects were animals, all kinds of animals, but particularly horses.

   His first art training came through a correspondence course in commercial design which he worked at assiduously during the long Canadian winters. With this start, he got a job in the art department of an engraving and printing firm in Toronto; later he worked for the Toronto Star Weekly doing news illustrations.

   From there, Lougheed headed for New York, supported himself by doing cover paintings for the Pulp magazines and studied at the Art Students League under Frank Vincent DuMond.

   Lougheed then divided his time between illustrating for publishers such as True, The National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, and Brown & Bigelow, and painting for exhibitions and galleries. He regularly painted animals in their natural habitats, traveling north of the Arctic Circle, throughout Canada, Alaska and other parts of the United States to observe them.

   Lougheed was a member of the Animal Artists Society, the Salmagundi Club, the Cowboy Artists, and the National Academy of Western Art, where his art won many awards.