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Charles William Bolsius

Charles William Bolsius (1907 - 1983) was active/lived in Arizona, New Mexico / Netherlands.  Charles Bolsius is known for Landscape, desert landscape, American frontier paintings, prints, architecture, furniture.

Charles William Bolsius (full birth name: Carolus Godefridus Wihelmus Marianus Bolsius)  was born June 26, 1907 in the southern Bois-le-Duc region of the Netherlands.  His studies in art culminated at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. His early work was characterized by dark somber tones with a focus on austere terrain. 

In 1930, Bolsius traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico via Los Angeles to visit family.  Within a year he was living in rural New Mexico, drawing and painting the great American Southwestern landscape.  He exhibited in Santa Fe in 1934; later that year, moving to Tucson, Arizona.   With his brother and sister-in-law, he purchased the ruins of a Post Traders Store outside the crumbling ruins of Fort Lowell on the outskirts of Tucson.   The trio embarked on a major reconstruction project, not only redesigning the building, but transforming it from a Territorial style to modified Pueblo Revival.  They hand carve   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3034 characters.]  Artist bio

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