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Birth
1878 (Augusta, Maine)
Death
1936 (Taos, New Mexico)
Lived/Active
New Mexico
Self portrait - W Herbert Dunton - Self Portrait
Often Known For
western genre-figure painting, illustration
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Categories of Interest
Taos Pre 1940
Illustrators
Western Painters
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Born on a farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading
American illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of
Taos, New Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West
before it disappeared.
Especially helpful to his career was the
patronage of Texans Nelda and H.J. Lutcher Stark whose collection
founded the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas. They bought hundreds
of Dunton's paintings during the Depression because his renderings of
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