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Henry Arthur Elkins

Henry Arthur Elkins (1847 - 1884) was active/lived in Colorado, California, Kansas, Vermont.  Henry Elkins is known for Mountain landscape, national park scene painting.

The following is from Ralph Petrozello who credits ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Dorothy Harmsen, a reference from a research librarian at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Although Henry Elkins was born in Vershire, Vermont, he became known in the Middle West for his paintings of Colorado and California and spent most of his short life traveling and painting in the West.

Elkins was one of the artists who crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountains
after the Civil War. In the summer of 1866, H. C. Ford, J. F. Gookins, and Elkins, all living in Chicago, formed a party and started out from the Missouri River. On an adventurous trip to Denver, Colorado, they joined an emigrant train for protection through Indian country. Denver was then a city of 7,000. One of their harrowing experiences occurred when a tornado near Cottonwood Springs, Nebraska, toppled their wagons and collapsed their tents.

Elkins was greatly influenced by the great Albert Bierstadt, under whom   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4157 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Henry Arthur Elkins

   Henry Arthur Elkins  Born:  1847 - Vershire, Vermont
Died:   1884 - Georgetown, Colorado
Known for:  Mountain landscape, national park scene painting
Name variants:  Henry Alkins

The following is from Ralph Petrozello who credits ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Dorothy Harmsen, a reference from a research librarian at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Although Henry Elkins was born in Vershire, Vermont, he became known in the Middle West for his paintings of Colorado and California and spent most of his short life traveling and painting in the West.

Elkins was one of the artists who crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountains
after the Civil War. In the summer of 1866, H. C. Ford, J. F. Gookins, and Elkins, all living in Chicago, formed a party and started out from the Missouri River. On an adventurous trip to Denver, Colorado, they joined an emigrant train for protection through Indian country. Den  ...  Displaying 750 of 4157 characters.

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