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Ray Strang

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Ray C. Strang (1893 - 1957) was active/lived in Arizona, New York.  Ray Strang is known for Cowboy genre, figure, illustrator.

A successful illustrator and then painter in traditional style of western genre, especially ranch scenes, Ray Strang was born in Sandoval, Illinois and had a successful career in New York and then in Arizona.

He went to school in Centralia, Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago.  His art studies were interrupted by his service in World War I, and he was wounded at the Argonne. In 1920, he returned to the Art Institute in Chicago and then went to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League and the Society of Illustrators.  For seventeen years, he was a successful advertising illustrator, working for three agencies and specializing in fiction and magazines.

In 1938, for his health, he made a visit to Tucson, Arizona, and realized, according to Harold and Peggy Samuels that "that the Old West I wanted to paint was still the West of today" ("Encyclopedia").  He bought an Arizona ranch, turned a bunkhouse into a studio, and painted ranch lif   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2200 characters.]  Artist bio

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12 Book References for Ray Strang
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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1971 Steadman, William E The West and Walter Bimson Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture 223 Yes
1952 Ainsworth, Edward Widening Horizons: Painters of the Western Desert 97 No
1951 Arnold, Elliott Tucson Festival of Arts March 25 - April 8 1951
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
1951 Carlson, Raymond (Editor) Gallery of Western Paintings 86 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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