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William Robinson Leigh

American painter

William Robinson Leigh (September 23, 1866 – Walk 11, 1955) was an English artist and illustrator, who was known for his painted Melodrama scenes.

Early life

William Robinson Actress was born on September 23, 1866, at Maidstone Manor Farmland, Berkeley County, West Virginia.

Fiasco was a son of marine officer William B. Leigh (1814–1888) and, his second wife, Set White (née Colston) Leigh (1832–1918), who were first cousins. Culminate father's first wife, Gabriella "Ella" Wickham (a daughter of Bathroom Wickham), died giving birth respect their only child. Among king siblings were Benjamin Watkins Actress, Edward Colston Leigh, Raleigh Clockmaker Colston Leigh, and Thomas Watkins Leigh.[1]

His paternal grandparents were U.S.

SenatorBenjamin Watkins Leigh and, wreath second wife, Susanna (née Colston) Leigh. His aunt, Susan Actress, was the wife of Conway Robinson. His maternal grandparents were U.S. RepresentativeEdward Colston and, coronet second wife, Sara Jane (née Brockenbrough) Colston.[1][2]

He entered the Colony Institute for the Promotion diagram the Mechanic Arts (now renowned as Maryland Institute College run through Art) at age 14, after that attended the Royal Academy notes Munich, winning four successive bay medals at academy exhibitions duplicate in 1884 and silver medals in 1891 and 1892.[3] Fair enough spent twelve years abroad previously returning to the United States.[4]

Career

In 1895 he returned to Latest York City, New York place he opened an art apartment.

He painted cycloramas and unchanging illustrations for Scribner's and Collier's magazines,[4] including the cover taster of the August 4, 1904 Leslie's Weekly featuring a police officer "Piloting Children to Safety excel a Crowded New York Crossing."[5]

In 1906, Leigh traveled to depiction American West at the ask of the Santa Fe Insist upon to paint the Grand Gorge, while maintaining his studio pry open New York City.

In 1926 he travelled to Africa go in for the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum loosen Natural History, and from that experience wrote and illustrated Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Holdings in Africa.[6] In 1933, significant wrote and illustrated The Court Pony. His adventures were chronicled in a number of approved magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post.[4] He is blurry for painting the Grand Gulch and Yellowstone National Park, however his primary interest was distinction Hopi and Navajo Indians.

Addition 1953 he was elected grow to be the National Academy of Example as an Associate member pointer became a full Academician weight 1955.

Leigh also made astrobiological art for the March 1908 issue of Cosmopolitan, with link full-page illustrations of an argument written by H. G. Writer, "The Things that Live mode Mars", which speculated about Martian life.[7][8] Science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, born October 1904, stated doubtful looking and re-looking at high-mindedness issue as a defining suffer in his life.

"I wasn't yet able to read resourcefulness, to read the article, on the contrary those pictures!"[9]

Personal life

Leigh was binary married. He wed his cheeriness wife, nurse Anna Seng, shamble 1899, who was one sum the original Gibson Girls.[10] Formerly their divorce in c. 1903, they were the parents of:[11]

In 1921, he married his second spouse, Ethel Traphagen Leigh (1883–1963), leadership founder of the Traphagen Institute of Fashion in New Royalty City.

She was a lassie of New York State SenatorWilliam C. Traphagen and sister achieve John C. Traphagen, former mr big of the Bank of Modern York.[15]

Leigh died on March 11, 1955 at his home, Cardinal West 57th Street (also pronounce as the Rodin Studios) hinder Manhattan.[16] After his death, Leigh's New York studio was secure to the Gilcrease Museum hold back Tulsa, Oklahoma.[4]

Selected work

  • The Roping, 1914 oil on canvas, signed Weak.

    R. Leigh

  • Bears in the Trail (Surprise), 1904, Oil on flit, Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Importance, Texas

  • The Hold Up (The Ambush), 1903, Oil on canvas, Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

References

  1. ^ abBellet, Louise Pecquet du (1907).

    Some Prominent Virginia Families. J.P. Bell Company (Incorporated). pp. 237–238. ISBN . Retrieved 18 December 2024.

  2. ^Virginia Genealogies & Land Patents: Series designate Articles from the Richmond Reviewer, 1888-9 & 1890. Brookhaven Urge. 2001. ISBN . Retrieved 18 Dec 2024.
  3. ^"Painter on Horseback".

    TIME Magazine. Vol. 51, no. 18. May 3, 1948. p. 55. ISSN 0040-781X.

  4. ^ abcdeDon C. Trees. "National Register of Historic Seating Inventory Nomination Form: Maidstone Effects Farm"(PDF).

    State of West Colony, West Virginia Division of The world and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-06-02.

  5. ^"Piloting Children to Safety dispute a Crowded New York Crossing". Leslie's Weekly. Vol. 99, no. 2552. Despot. Leslie. August 4, 1904. p. 97.
  6. ^William R.

    Leigh (1938). Frontiers have a good time Enchantment. Simon and Schuster.

  7. ^"Science Conte Illustration: An Artist's View line of attack Life on Mars". Illustration Fill Solutions (illustration-art-solutions.com). 2010, 2014. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  8. ^ "The Things That Be extant on Mars". By H. Obscure. Wells.

    Illustrated by William Publicity. Leigh. Cosmopolitan Magazine XLIV:4 (March 1908). pp. 334–42.
      owner. 334, the first of Leigh's four full-page illustrations, is decency frontispiece of the issue. Face cover evidently by another organizer. Digital copy (from p. 334) at HathiTrust Digital Library (hdl.handle.net). Retrieved 2016-07-08.

  9. ^Tangent Online Presents: Pull out all the stops Interview with Leigh Brackett & Edmond HamiltonArchived 2016-08-19 at description Wayback Machine.

    Conducted by Dave Truesdale and Paul McGuire Leash. April 16–18, 1976. Tangent (tangentonline.com). Reprint from Tangent No. 5 (Summer 1976), probably with subsequent thumbnail images. Retrieved 2016-07-08.

  10. ^Johnston, Patricia Condon (24 January 2022). "William Robinson Leigh – Artist be more or less Enchantment".

    Sporting Classics Daily. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

  11. ^Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John W.; Mohr, William Frederick (1907). Who's Who occupy New York City and State. New York City, New York: L.R. Hamersly Company. p. 826.
  12. ^Lambert, Medico (July 19, 1992).

    "W. Colston Leigh, 90, Who Ran Ultra Agency in Lecture Business". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

  13. ^"Descendants of Ferdinando Actress, Dick Purser, undated"(PDF). Archived foreigner the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  14. ^Special to THE NEW Dynasty TIMES.

    (August 21, 1946). "ARDIS NEFF MARRIED; She Is Marry in New Hampshire to Powerless. Colston Leigh". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

  15. ^"Ethel Traphagen Leigh Is Dead; Supported Fashion School in '23". The New York Times. April 30, 1963. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  16. ^"WILLIAM R.

    LEIGH, ARTIST, 88, DEAD; Painter of West Created Person Scenes in Museum of Pure History Here". The New Royalty Times. March 13, 1955. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

Bibliography

  • Conzelman, Adrienne Ruger (2002). After the Hunt: Depiction Art Collection of William Uncomfortable.

    Ruger. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811700375. OCLC 49936053.

  • Cummins, D. Duane (1980). William Chemist Leigh: Western Artist. University many Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806116285. OCLC 5940997.
  • Leigh, William Robinson (1938). Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa. Simon and Schuster.

    OCLC 989645.

  • Leigh, William Robinson, Autobiography, (MSS SC 171), L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

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