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ROBERT W. AMICK (1879-1969)
Born in a log
cabin in Canyon City, Colorado, Robert Amick became an illustrator of
Western subjects, painter, printmaker, commercial artist and teacher.
He grew up in the Colorado cattle country during the 1880’s amidst
cowboys, Ute and Sioux Indians, homesteaders and prospectors.
Amick earned a law degree from Yale University while also taking art courses. After practicing law for two years in Ohio, he became a full time artist, taking private lessons and studying at the Arts Student League in New York. He did illustrations for Harpers, Scribners, The American and other publications but was most comfortable portraying the West as he remembered it as a young man.
His Western scenes of brilliantly colored landscapes with horses and riders became quite popular and twelve of his paintings were reproduced as prints for the public schools. He spent much of his career living near New York City in Greenwich, Connecticut where he, according to a family member, founded the Art Society of Old Greenwich. He was also a member if the Society of Illustrators. It is presumed that Amick moved to Arizona in the late 1930’s or early 40’s.
Amick earned a law degree from Yale University while also taking art courses. After practicing law for two years in Ohio, he became a full time artist, taking private lessons and studying at the Arts Student League in New York. He did illustrations for Harpers, Scribners, The American and other publications but was most comfortable portraying the West as he remembered it as a young man.
His Western scenes of brilliantly colored landscapes with horses and riders became quite popular and twelve of his paintings were reproduced as prints for the public schools. He spent much of his career living near New York City in Greenwich, Connecticut where he, according to a family member, founded the Art Society of Old Greenwich. He was also a member if the Society of Illustrators. It is presumed that Amick moved to Arizona in the late 1930’s or early 40’s.
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