Irvin "Shorty" Shope
(American, Boulder, MT 1900 - 1978 Helena, MT)
Painted 11 Mountie subjects between 1959-1960.
Irvin "Shorty" Shope was raised on a ranch in Montana, and fell under
the influence of the western painter Edgar S. Paxson while still in high school. Between 1919 and 1930, Shope worked as a cowboy on Montana ranches, while studying art through a correspondence course.
Beginning in 1925, he first exhibited his paintings in M (showing 500 of 1229 characters). |
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