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William Tylee Ranney

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William Tylee Ranney (1813 - 1857) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey.  William Ranney is known for Frontier genre, landscape and narrative history painting.

Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find adventure, he joined in 1836 the Texas army in its fight for independence against Mexico, and this period, very brief, was his only experience on the frontier. It is likely that he met trappers on this venture, as several of his most popular paintings including The Trappers Last Shot, were based on a rowdy rendezvous with trapper Joseph Meek in Yellowstone Park.

Following this period of western adventure, he returned to Brooklyn where he lived, working in and around New York City for the next ten years. In 1853, he moved his family to West Hoboken, New Jersey and built a studio large enough for animals including horses. The walls were decorated with western items such as saddles, guns and sword   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4828 characters.]  Artist bio

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11 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Tylee Ranney
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Wildlife Art The Buffalo Bill Historical Center November 2006 Boehme, Sarah E. Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming September 2006 Editor Yes
American Art Review The Art of William Ranney May 2006 Boehme, Sarah E Yes
Southwest Art Art Events: Rocky Mountains May 2006 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2003 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
American Art Review Jack L Blanton Museum of Art December 2001 Carlozzi, Annette; E Duganne Yes
American Art Review Dallas Museum of Art December 2001 Harvey, Eleanor; Lyle Gray Yes
Art & Auction Around the Block April 2001 Berkovitch, Ellen No
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
Southwest Art Proud Legacy: 150 Years of Western January 1999 May, Stephen Yes
The Magazine Antiques Greenville (SC) County Museum /Art November 1994 Severens, Martha Yes
119 Book References for William Tylee Ranney
Year Author Title Pages Color
2020 Payne, Warren Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers from the Collection of Warren and Julie Payne 136 No
2014 Fahlman, Betsy (Editor) Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013 217 Yes
2008 Pennington, Estill Curtis Kentucky The Master Painters 0 Yes
2006 Bantel, Linda and Peter H. Hassrick essays by Sarah Boehme & Mark Bockrath Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney With a Catalogue of His Works 226 Yes
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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
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2002 Hassrick, Peter H Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park 248 Yes
2002 Spanierman Gallery (Editor) The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
2000 Editor, Spanierman Gallery Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1993 Ayers, William S Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Pavese, Edith American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art 160 Yes
1993 Pennington, Estill Curtis Passage and Progress in the Works of William Tylee Ranney
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1992 Curators, Buffalo Bill Center Treasures From Our West 57 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Santa Barbara Museum of Art America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1991 Stewart, Rick (et al) Carl Wimar Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 251 Yes
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1991 Thistlethwaite, Mark William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1990 Tyler, Ron American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists 208 Yes
1989 Bloch, E Maurice Faces and Figures in American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1989 National Gallery of Art American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 Yes
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts 328 Yes
1988 Gerald Peters Gallery The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 93 Yes
1988 Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite Grand Illusions History Painting in America 174 No
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1988 Saunders, Richard H Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 211 Yes
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1987 Richard York Gallery An American Gallery Spring 1987
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 Yes
1987 Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1987 Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints 192 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
1986 Novak, Barbara Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection 326 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1983 Cunningham, Elizabeth Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection 152 Yes
1983 Goetzmann, William/B Reese Texas Images & Visions
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Glanz, Dawn How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier 205 No
1982 Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher Legacy of the West 157 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 197 Yes
1981 Anschutz Collection Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1981 Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies) The West as Romantic Horizon 128 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Broder, Patricia Janis Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection 155 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Richards, Jane L American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 North Carolina Museum of Art Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro) American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1974 Ward, Johanna Walsh The Renaisance of Western Art 144 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1972 Curry, Larry The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1972 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1971 Rossi, Paul/David Hunt The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute 335 Yes
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Bernard Danenberg Galleries Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1968 Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction), American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 No
1967 Pinckney, Pauline A Painting in Texas The Nineteenth Century 213 Yes
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1964 Gerdts, William H Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey 276 No
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1962 Grubar, Francis William Ranney Painter of the Early West
(Exhibition catalog)		 97 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Rathbone, Perry T (editor) Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers 280 Yes
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
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