 1915 - 1966 (50 years)
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| Name |
George Albert Phippen [1, 2] |
| Birth |
11 Jul 1915 |
Charles City, Iowa  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Apr 1966 |
Skull Valley, Yavapai, Arizona |
| Person ID |
I59501 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
28 Oct 2005 |
| Father |
Joseph Albert Phippen, b. 1 Mar 1878, Apple River, Jo Daviess, IL d. 12 Mar 1960, Burlington, Coffey, KS (Age 82 years) |
| Mother |
Pearl Belle Brees, b. 13 Apr 1884, Westphalia, Anderson, KS d. 20 Nov 1947 (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Jul 1907 |
Burlington, Coffey, KS |
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| Family ID |
F25011 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
George Phippen
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Boss Has a Young'un
by George Phippen |
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"George and Louise Phippen were not wealthy people. He lived for his art and for the help he could give to new artists. They traded his art to pay the bills and take care of their family. As a result, most of George Phippen's work is now in private collections throughout the United States."
George Phippen, Joe Beeler, John Hampton & Charlie Dye founded the Cowboy Artists of America in 1965 to encourage the creation and collection of western art in the tradition of Charles Russell and Fredric Remington.
Unfortunately, Phippen died before the new group was able to hold its first exhibition in 1966 at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. However, his influence on today's Western American Realism painters and sculptors lives on, as does the spark he rekindled for the lost wax process of bronze casting that stems from the tiny renaissance he began in Prescott in the 1950s
"Phippen's paintings and sculptures typically convey a keen sense of humor and an insight into the everyday life of working cowboys. He excelled at the looser, more painterly style of Western art in the 50s and 60s, and is known for his mastery of campfires, burning cigarettes and night skies."
Web: ( ) (http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa526.htm)
| Cowboy Artist George Phippen, Dead |
Prescott, Ariz (AP) - George A. Phippen, president of the Cowboy Artists of America died of cancer Wednesday night at his Lone Burro ranch it was disclosed today.
Phippen, 50, was a widely known painter and sculptor. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow with butial in Skull Valley Cemetery.
Actor John Wayne commissioned Phippen in 1962 to do art work for "The Alamo", a motion picture produced that year. Phippen was a former president of the Southwestern Men's Creative Arts Association.
His widow, Louise, a daiughter and four sons living in Skull Valley, near Prescott, survive.
A native of Charles City, Iowa, Phippen moved to Arizona as a youth and began his professional art career at Sante Fe, N.M after serving in the Amry in World War II
(April 15, 1966 Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada) |
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S1065] Danell Guasp, Guasp Genealogy, (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1850799&id=I88603838).
- [S1066] Phippen Museum , Prescott, Arizona, George Phippen Retrospective, (http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa526.htm).
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