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Henry Howard Bagg (1852 - 1928) was active/lived in Nebraska, California.  Henry Bagg is known for Western scene and religious painting, illustration, teaching.

Born in Wauconda, Illinois, Henry Howard Bagg painted numerous scenes of western life in Colorado and Nebraska and became one of Nebraska's early prominent art professionals. He often worked from photographs, and his style was basically realistic with tonalism and luminism.

Little is known about his early childhood except that he referred to having lived on a large estate in Northern Illinois and credited his mother for his early art education and encouragement in that endeavor. His father was a country doctor and his mother a teacher in a girls' seminary. He took formal art study from a Professor Woodruff in Aurora, Illinois. In the late 1870s, he married Ida Pettibone of Lanesborough, Massachusetts, the community in which his parents had been born. He became an art instructor at the Jennings Seminary in Aurora, and began exhibiting landscape paintings in 1885. He was also an active member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony at Oregon, Illinois in the late 1800s.

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Facts about Henry Howard Bagg

   Henry Howard Bagg  Born:  1852 - Wauconda, Illinois
Died:   1928 - Lincoln, Nebraska
Known for:  Western scene and religious painting, illustration, teaching

Biography from the Archives of askART

Born in Wauconda, Illinois, Henry Howard Bagg painted numerous scenes of western life in Colorado and Nebraska and became one of Nebraska's early prominent art professionals. He often worked from photographs, and his style was basically realistic with tonalism and luminism.

Little is known about his early childhood except that he referred to having lived on a large estate in Northern Illinois and credited his mother for his early art education and encouragement in that endeavor. His father was a country doctor and his mother a teacher in a girls' seminary. He took formal art study from a Professor Woodruff in Aurora, Illinois. In the late 1870s, he married Ida Pettibone of Lanesborough, Massachusetts, the community in which his parents had been born. He became an art instructor at the Jennings Seminary in Aurora, and began exhibiting landscape paintings in 1885. He was also an active member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony at Oregon, Illinois in the late 1800s.

In 1885, he and his wife and son moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and he opened a studio at 12th and N Streets where he gave private lessons and classes. In 1895, he moved his family to Peru, Nebraska, where he taught until 1900. Returning to Lincoln, he taught at Cotner College in Bethany, now a part of Lincoln. During this time, he did many paintings for churches.

In 1903, he became an instructor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in 1907, director of the newly-formed Department of Art, and reportedly was a very popular instructor.

During the summer months, he traveled and painted extensively in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Wyoming, and on one of his trips stayed at the Buffalo Bill Cody ranch in Wyoming, and Cody became a collector of several of his paintings. Another collector was William Jennings Bryan. Bagg did many studies of bison, and a buffalo painting, Reminiscences of the Plains, hung in the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.

In 1918, Bagg retired from Wesleyan, and he and his wife moved to Boulder, Colorado to be near their daughter and the mountains, which he loved to paint. He also contracted with the Thomas D Murphy Calendar Company of Red Oak, Iowa, to create paintings for their calendars, and 45 paintings were completed for this project.

Sources:
The Life and Times of Henry Howard Bagg by John Clabaugh

The Art of Oregon: Influence of Eagle's Nest Art Colony and Rediscovered Collection They Left Behind by Beth Baker Simeone


Biography from the Archives of askART

Henry Howard Bagg was born in Wauconda, IL on June 30, 1852. Bagg worked in Kansas before accepting a position to teach at Nebraska State Normal School in Peru.  He later was a teacher at Cotner College (1902-16) and Nebraska Wesleyan University (1906-19).  

For many years he had a studio in Lincoln, NE while leading an itinerant existence with many trips to California and all over the West.  Primarily an oil painter of western scenes, he also painted religious genre for churches in Omaha and Lincoln.  He painted several hundred calendar subjects for the Murphy Company in Iowa and the Osborn Company in New York.  Examples of his Yosemite paintings are amply illustrated in the book Seven Wonders of the American West  (Thomas D. Murphy, 1925).  Bagg died in Lincoln, NE on July 23, 1928.  In:  Joslyn Museum (Omaha).

Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Artists of the American West (Samuels); Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); American Art Annual 1928 (obit).

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Biography from the Archives of askART

Born Wauconda, IL, 1853; died Lincoln, NB, July 23, 1928. Painter, specialized in western scenes and religious themes. Illustrator. Teacher. Worked in Kansas before moving to Lincoln, NB in 1885 where he gave private art lessons. Took a faculty position at Nebraska State Normal School in Peru. Taught at Cotner College in Lincoln from 1902-1916 and at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1903-1918. Moved to Colorado after retirement. Bagg often worked from photographs, and his paintings were basically realistic with tonalism and luminism influence.

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Dawdy 3: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 3. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1985.; AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Aug. 2, 2006.

This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas.


Biography from Museum of Nebraska Art

Henry Howard Bagg was the pupil of M. Woodruff of Aurora, Illinois. He is sometimes considered the first professional art teacher in Nebraska. He began his career at Peru Normal School in 1895 at Peru, Nebraska and later taught at Nebraska Wesleyan and Cotner College. He exhibited in the 1885 Chicago Exposition.

Bagg was a well-known calendar artist producing a host of images for the Murphy Calendar Company of Red Oak, Iowa. He also painted a number of religious subjects for churches in Lincoln and Omaha. He was best known for his western subjects and painted numerous scenes of western life in Colorado and Nebraska.


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