Philip R. Goodwin : America's Sporting and Wildlife Artist - Hardcover

Peterson, Larry Len

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963564250 ISBN 13: 9780963564252

Publisher: The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, 2001

Synopsis

Philip R. Goodwin (1881 1935), a contemporary and friend of Charles Russell, was a well-known artist in the early twentieth century. His illustrations and oil and watercolor paintings of wildlife, cowboys, lumberjacks, fishermen, and hunters graced calendars and the covers of magazines, including National Sportsman and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1903, at the beginning of his career, he illustrated the first edition of Jack London s Call of the Wild. In 1919 he created an illustration for Winchester know as Horse and Rider, which is perhaps one of the most enduring and recognized western advertising images ever designed. Though his art fell into obscurity in the latter half of the twentieth century, today it is highly sought after by collectors.This handsome volume contains more than 550 of Goodwin s images, hundreds in full color and many of them held in private collections and rarely available for public viewing. Personal photographs of Goodwin and his friends, along with lette

About this title

About the Author:

Larry Len Peterson is an enthusiastic collector of western art, including original art, books, paper memorabilia, and photographs. He is past chairman of the National Advisory Board to the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. Peterson is author of more than forty publications, including Charles M. Russell, Legacy (1999); A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout,
1858 1864 (2000); The Call of the Mountains: The Artists of Glacier National Park (2002); and L. A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West (2003).

Brian W. Dippie is a widely acknowledged expert on the art, history, and popular culture
of the American West. He wrote Bards of the Little Big Horn; Catlin and His Contemporaries; West Fever; and Charles M. Russell, Word Painter: Letters, 1887-1926.

Review:

"[Goodwin's] yellow skies and red shirts stir emotions: they extend an invitation to join his outdoorsmen in their demanding pursuits, to experience physical danger, and to partake in nature's bounty."

About this edition

• Publisher: The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0963564250
• ISBN 13: 9780963564252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1