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Fred Harman Jr

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Fred Harman, Jr. (1902 - 1982) was active/lived in Colorado, California, Arizona, Missouri.  Fred Harman Jr is known for Cartoonist, cowboy-western genre painting.

Best known for his comic strip Red Ryder and Little Beaver, Fred Harman was also a noted painter of scenes of the American West.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and as an infant moved with his family to Pagosa Springs, Colorado where his father was a lawyer.  He grew up on a ranch in Indian country where he associated with Ute, Apache, Navajo, and Paiute Indians, and as a child he spent much time sketching these people.  As an adult, he traveled and painted throughout the country inhabited by them.

In 1916, he moved to Kansas City as a teen ager but returned regularly to Colorado to work as a cowboy and to serve in the National Guard during World War I.  For about twenty years he worked both as a cowboy and artist and received little recognition for his art abilites.  In Kansas City in the 1920s, he made slides for silent movie houses.  He also formed his own animated cartoon company with a friend and local artist, Walt Disney, but they   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7574 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  24
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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Fred Harman, Jr.
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Arizona History Through Art April 2000 Reisdorfer, Kathryn Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West October 1995 Methner, Ellen Rosenbush Yes
24 Book References for Fred Harman, Jr.
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Duty, Michael; Don Hedgpeth Cowboy Artists of America 216 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Horn, Maurice (editor) 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia 414 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Dedera, Don Visions West The Story of Cowboy Artists of America Museum 84 Yes
1983 Murray, Richard N Art of the American West 74 Yes
1982 Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection 52 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1976 Howard, James K Ten Years with the Cowboy Artist A Complete History
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Goulart, Ron The Adventurous Decade Comic Strips in the Thirties 224 No
1973 Sheridan, Martin Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists 304 No
1971 Cowboy Artists Of America Cowboy Artists of America Sixth Annual Exhibition 1971
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1969 Harman, Fred The Great West in Paintings (Fred Harman) 185 Yes
1969 Krakel, Dean (introduction) The Great West in Paintings By Fred Harman 186 Yes
1968 Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward) The Cowboy in Art 242 Yes
1968 Krakel, Dean (Introduction) Cowboy Artists of America Third Annual Exhibit
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
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