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 Charles O. Golden  (1899 - 1976)

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Lived/Active: Arizona/Pennsylvania      Known for: ethnic portrait watercolor painting
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Golden's speciality was portraits and various southwestern landscapes and still lifes in watercolor, but he also executed some oils and woodblock prints of the desert.

Born in Upshur County, West Virginia on February 3, 1889, Golden studied at the Corcoran School of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy as well as under J.J. Gould and C.D. Mitchell. 

From 1920 to 1930, Golden maintained a studio in Philadelphia where he illustrated book covers and magazines for the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentlemen, Etude and Pictorial Review.  It was during this period that he pioneered the use of transparent watercolor for production in advertising.  Golden went on to develop and master the use of transparent watercolor to a rare degree of perfection. 

Golden moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1936, and within a year of his arrival, Golden was active in the local art organizations including the founding of the Southern Arizona School of Art in 1949 where he served as co-director and instructor.  After an illness, Golden died in Tucson on February 5, 1976, and was laid to rest in Clarksburg, West Virginia. 

His exhibitions included the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, Mystic Art Association, American Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Academy, Tucson Fine Arts Association and the Arizona State Fair.  A retrospective exhibition was held at Covington Fine Arts in 1999.

His work is represented in many collections including the Tucson Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum.

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Compiled and submitted by Wayne Kielsmeier


This biography from the Archives of AskART:
A native of West Virginia, Charles Golden was a teacher at the Southern Arizona School of Art in Tucson, which he founded in 1947 with John Havard Macpherson and Beatrice Edgerly Macpherson.  Golden became noted for his watercolor paintings, especially Arizona cowboys, Indians and young girls who attended the San Xavier Mission near Tucson.  He also did an occasional landscape, but "only when he got an idea for one." (Dawdy, 169)

He received his training at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  For eleven years, he maintained a studio in Philadelphia doing illustrations for magazines including The Saturday Evening Post.   He pioneered in the development of transparent watercolor for reproduction in advertising.

In 1937, he began painting in the Tucson area, and two years later built a home and studio on the outskirts of the city on East Pima Avenue.

Sources include:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West, Vol. III, p. 169


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