Painting of the Day, November 3, 2011

By Donna Poulton

"When I was a little boy and lived in Maine, I read everything about the West I could get my hands on - not dime novels, but everything authentic. I lived the life in prospect. Then I lived it in actuality, living with cowpunchers in Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona - all along the cattle strip. Now that those days are gone, I live it in retrospect and in my pictures." - W. Herbert Dunton

W. Herbert  “Buck” Dunton was a successful illustrator working for Scribner’s, Harper’s, and for Zane Grey before settling in Taos and becoming founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.  While his illustrations are more detailed and representative, his finished easel work is much more stylized.           

Credit: amica.davidrumsey.com

W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton (1878 – 1936), Fall in the Foothills, c. 1933, oil on canvas, 34 x 42 in. Collection of the AMICA Library