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August (Curley) Lenox

August (Curley) Lenox (1908 - 1986) was active/lived in Texas, California.  August Lenox is known for Western scene, Indian figure and genre.

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Submitted March 2004 by Ettore Ragone, friend of the artist, and written by Art World Security, Inc. Ingram, Texas.

Mr. August Lenox was born in 1908, in a sod house homestead on the plains of North Dakota (exact location unknown) and died December 6, 1986 in Hemet, California. As a young boy, he was fascinated by the adventures and lives of pirates and painted several scenes of them on canvases. He also wrote several stories about their lives. In the1950s, he worked for Walt Disney illustrating comic magazines for children.

Lenox became a permanent resident of the Texas Hill Country where he painted western subjects in oil of cowboys and Indians that are lean, tough men with grime dust and blood on them from a hard life working cattle and fighting on the open range-land.

He painted these true-to-life stories into his canvases because he lived them as part of the Chuck Wagon West. Now in his middle sixties, long gone from the Cow Camps, Lenox paints the passing sce   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2649 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for August (Curley) Lenox


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectChronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
  • Walt Disney Studio Artist, Productions/Commissioned

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