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"Patience", Watercolor by Craig Sheppard

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 Patience , Watercolor by Craig Sheppard
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Craig Sheppard (1913-1978), long-time University of Nevada art professor, painted this beautiful watercolor of a horse tied by the water. From the Knowledge Center at the University of Nevada: "Craig Sheppard, a native of Lawton, Oklahoma, lived in two worlds during his college days. He was a bareback rider in rodeo arenas from Oklahoma to New York’s Madison Square Garden, and an outstanding student in art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where he majored in both painting and sculpture. Prior to coming to the University of Nevada in 1947 to assume the chairmanship of its struggling art department, Sheppard worked as a wartime draftsman at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa, and as an art instructor at the University of Montana in Bozeman. Sheppard was a versatile artist who was equally at home illustrating books, teaching art history and, on occasion, painting murals. His own easel paintings were stylistically and thematically wide-ranging, from deftly achieved watercolors of western life-horses, riders and requisite ranches and range--to oils that explored enigmatic human figures against equally mystifying landscapes, as exemplified in his “Dead Horse” series painted during a sabbatical leave in Europe. In 1978, during the last year of his life, Sheppard received the Artist of the Decade Award from the Nevada State Council on the Arts." Framed size 32" x 37".

City: Reno
State: Nevada
Date: 1976
HWAC#: : 32074