Bill Chappell Western Art Original Painting Cowboy
Price: $899.00
Bill Chappell Western Art Original Painting Cowboy
This is a very nice original oil on board from our art gallery. This is a Bill Chappell that came from the private collection of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Agnew was the Vice President under Richard Nixon. This is a very nice piece. The framed piece measures about 19.5"X31.25" and is the perfect representation of the art Chappell is famous for with buffalo and Native Americans. As you can see from our photos the frame suites the art nicely and this piece is labeled "Meat on the run". This is just one of the many great works of art we have displayed in our art gallery.
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Bill Chappell, Western Artist and Sculptor (7/16/1919 - 9/22/2010) A cowboy is a multi-talented person. An artist, too, is versatile. Combine the two in the personage of Bill Chappell, and the result is authentic Western scenes captured on canvas and in bronze.
Born in 1919, Chappell grew up as a west Texas ranch hand and experienced all the hardships and joys known by cowboys of a passing era. His early range life and keen-eyed observation shaped his thinking and his art. Before the age of 10 he was making clay sculptures, paintings, and wood and leather carvings. His leather work expanded into saddlery, and he began making silver buckles and accessories.
His wife, Fay, was always a constant inspiration to his work. After their marriage, in 1939, Bill served in the Navy, and was put in charge of occupational therapy using leather crafts. After the war he returned to Seymour, Texas, where he owned and operated a saddle and boot shop until 1953. It was during this time one of his most outstanding works was done, a life-size leather carving of Will Rogers, which was shown in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City for several years. His leather carving and artistic skills were given special recognition when he was commissioned to make the first saddle for the World Champion Rodeo Cowgirl in 1951.
Armed with only a 6th grade education, Bill continually read about and tried new things. He became an avid oil painter after moving to Colorado in 1953. In 1965, he sold his saddle shop to began painting and doing bronzes full time. Both mediums found ready acceptance from collectors throughout the nation.
He and Fay split their time between Colorado and Texas as he continued his work in art until his passing, September 22nd, 2010 at the age of 91.
•Wild West Magazine •Cowboy Magazine •Western Horseman •Southwest Art •Art West •Numerous newspapers Major resource book listings:
•Buffalo Soldiers of the West, Carroll •Bronzes of the American West, Broder •Contemporary Western Art, Samuels •Cowboy in Art, Ainsworth •Encyclopedia of Contemporary Western Artists •Personalities of America •The Story of Leanin' Tree: Art and Enterprise in the American West, Ed Trumble •Who's Who in Western Art Other accomplishments:
•A life-size leather carving of Will Rogers, which was shown in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City for several years. •Ten nationally-distributed Christmas/note cards by the Leanin' Tree Card Company of Boulder, Colorado. •Commissioned by Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas to produce the "Hardin-Simmons Cowboy" in bronze and painted the same in a rodeo setting. •Featured artist at the International Art Show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas •Beginning in 1980, for 19 years Bill donated a special painting to The South Texas Children's Home is Beeville, Texas, for their Christmas card. Major art collections in which Bill Chappell's work appears:
•Bob Rockwell, Corning, New York •Cid Richardson Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas •Maybe Foundation, Midland, Texas •Cullen Foundation •Houston Endowment •Rockwell Foundation of Houston •Parker Collection of Tulsa (Oklahoma) •The King Collection •Fine Arts Center of Pueblo, Colorado •Ben E. Keath, Dallas, Texas •Stanford Museum, Texas •Barnard's Mill (Fielder Foundation) •Leanin' Tree Museum •Buckaroo Hall of Fame Museum, Winnemucca, Nevada
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