This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born near Noblesville, Indiana, Harvey Caylor was known as a cowboy
artist for his authentic paintings of Texas ranch life including
longhorn cattle drives and roundups. He was also a painter of
landscapes, portraits, genre and animals; was an illustrator and also a
writer of articles for ranching and agricultural publications.
Caylor
was raised in a log cabin, the ninth of twelve children, supported by a
father who was a shoemaker. Caylor received drawing lessons as a
child. At 14, he left home to do odd jobs including herding
cattle in Kansas. With money he saved from his earnings, he
studied painting in Indianapolis with Jacob Cox (1810-1892), a
portrait, landscape and still-life painter.
Having learned that western artist Frederic Remington recommended that
artists should head West to get first hand familiarity with landscape
and other painting subjects, Caylor followed that advice and worked
through ranches and cities
toward the Pacific. In the early 1880s, he was in Arizona,
especially to observe the Indians.
By
1890, he had married and was settled on a ranch near Big Spring,
Texas. On sketching trips throughout West Texas, he
travelled with his wife in either a covered wagon or a
mule-drawn hack.
He also outfitted his ranch with Texas longhorns, which he used as
models in his paintings. In 1894, he was financially successful from
ranching and determined to
be a serious painter, pursued a career as cowboy artist until his death
from
nephritis in 1932 in Big Spring.
Sources include:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors, & Graphic Artists | |
Exhibition Record (Museums, Institutions and Awards):
Heritage Museum, Big Spring, TX. |
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born Noblesville, IN, Feb. 20, 1867; died Big Spring, TX, Dec. 24, 1932. Painter, specialized in ranch and roundup themes. Self-taught. Caylor’s aptitude for drawing led to his earning a living as a portrait painter during the early years of his life. At 12 years old (1879) came to Kansas for a visit. When he was 14 he studied in Indianapolis, IN with Jacob Cox and discovered a flair for portraiture that became his means of livelihood as an itinerant artist. Caylor returned to Kansas when he was 16 and worked as a cowboy, sketching in his spare time. He traveled west to California cow punching and building a portfolio of western sketches. Lived in Parsons with an aunt where he painted portraits and married Florence Nephler in 1889. The two traveled from town to town selling paintings and sketches before settling in Big Spring, TX in 1893. Started painting seriously in 1894 turning out portraits and ranch scenes. | Source:
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1974. Samuels, Peggy. Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.; Kanhistique. Ellsworth, KS, v.1 #1 May 1975-. 1975-1982 examined.. Ellsworth, KS, v.1 #1 May 1975-. 1975-1982 examined. (June 1981); AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Sept. 2, 2005; Taft, Lorado. History of American Sculpture. New edition with supplemental chapter by Adeline Adams. New York: Macmillan Co, 1930.; Pickle, Joe. H.W. Caylor, Frontier Artist. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1981). | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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