Don Crowley

Donald "Don" V. Crowley (born December 1, 1926 in Redlands , California ) is an American painter and illustrator .

Life

Crowley attended school in Santa Ana and, after graduating from high school in 1944, served two years in the US Merchant Marine and another two years in the US Navy . He then studied through the GI Bill at the Art Center College of Design , where he also met Betty Jane ("BJ" for short) Brown, whom he married in 1953, the year he graduated.

With Betty Jane he went to New York City , where both worked as commercial artists for a good 20 years. In 1954 he became a member of the Society of Illustrators . Crowly worked at Cooper Studios for seven years. In 1973 Crowley took part in an exhibition in Tucson , Arizona , on the advice of artists James Bama and Sam Winsom . In 1974, the Crowleys sold their Connecticut home and settled permanently in Tucson, where Crowley has been a freelance artist ever since.

Crowley is known for his hyper-realistic depictions of Wild West and Indian motifs, from still lifes to portraits . Among other things, western Apaches from the San Carlos reserve were his model . Also worth mentioning is the representation of the five sisters Carmen Jean, Shanandoah "Shanan" J., Georgetta "Jetta" Jeanette (married Wood) and Dorena Martineau from the Paiute tribe ( Kaibab Plateau ), daughters of the Indian and petroglyph researcher Douglas LaVan Martineau ( 1932-2000). He is now working with the third generation of Martineaus.

Crowley is part of the original seven-member artist group Tucson 7 . In 1994 he was accepted into the Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) association. His works have been shown at exhibitions and in well-known American galleries for western art.

Publications

• with Don Hedgpeth: Desert Dreams, the Western Art of Don Crowley: The Western Art of Don Crowle. Greenwich Workshop, 2003. ISBN 978-0-867-13090-4

literature

• Tisa Rodriguez Sherman: The Tucson 7 , Tucson Museum of Art , 1997. ISBN 978-0-911611-10-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

Web links

• Artist website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Don Crowley , Cowboy Artists of America.
2. ↑ Don Crowley ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Autry Museum of the American West .
3. ↑ Don Crowley , ArtRev.com.
4. ↑ Don Crowley ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , High Noon Western Americana.
5. ↑ Douglas Lavan Martineau ; in: Miscellaneous Obituaries of Anthropologists , Obituary Central.
6. ↑ See also sources from Douglas LaVan Martineau (1932–2000) .
7. ↑ Douglas Lavan Martineau , Find a Grave .
8. ^ Biography , Don Crowley.
9. ↑ A. Keith Brodkin: Tucson 7 Artists ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum .