Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Canyon, TX
806-651-2244
http://www.panhandleplains.org/
Dunbier Paints the Southwest
Beginning June 23,
2001, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum at Canyon, Texas, will feature
the work of artist Augustus W. Dunbier.
This exhibition will include some 50 paintings from the estate of the Nebraska
artist who painted all over the United States, Europe, and Mexico.
Augustus
W. Dunbier, (1888-1977) was a prolific oil painter, well-known for his colorful
landscapes, still life, portraits and figures. At age sixteen, Dunbier studied
at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf and associated with many noted artists
working in Europe at that time. In 1915, Dunbier returned to the United
States and served in the US Army Camouflage Corps. After World War I, he
spent a year on the East Coast, painting at the artist colony in New Hope,
Pennsylvania. (left: A New Mexico Mountain Afternoon, oil,
24 x 28 inches)
Dunbier visited and revisited every corner of North America,
painting the mountains of Montana and Colorado, the coasts and harbors of
Massachusetts and Oregon, and the deserts of New 
Mexico and Arizona. From 1953 until 1970, he spent
all but two winters painting landscapes in and around Tucson and Phoenix.
(left: A Turn Toward Taos, oil, 20 x 24 inches)
Known as a colorist, his paintings are characterized by
assertive, contrasting colors and bold brushwork. His landscapes were both
realistic and capturing of intangibles such as season, temperature, time
of day, atmospheric light, and impending weather. Dunbier completed most
of these landscapes "en plein air," entirely out-of-doors, taking
no more than several hours for each work.
During
his sixty-two year professional career, painting several paintings a week,
he held to his own course, undistracted by fads and progressing steadily
from canvas to canvas portraying what is now, in retrospect, a quite marvelous
variety of subjects and styles. (left: Sunday Afternoon, oil,
20 x 24 inches)
Dunbier Paints the Southwest will be on exhibit at the
PPHM June 23 through August 18, 2001 in the Main Art Gallery.
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Augustus
W. Dunbier, (1888-1977) was a prolific oil painter, well-known for his colorful
landscapes, still life, portraits and figures. At age sixteen, Dunbier studied
at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf and associated with many noted artists
working in Europe at that time. In 1915, Dunbier returned to the United
States and served in the US Army Camouflage Corps. After World War I, he
spent a year on the East Coast, painting at the artist colony in New Hope,
Pennsylvania. (left: A New Mexico Mountain Afternoon, oil,
24 x 28 inches)
