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Henry Howard Bagg

Henry Howard Bagg (1852 - 1928) was active/lived in Nebraska, California.  Henry Bagg is known for Western scene and religious painting, illustration, teaching.

Born in Wauconda, Illinois, Henry Howard Bagg painted numerous scenes of western life in Colorado and Nebraska and became one of Nebraska's early prominent art professionals. He often worked from photographs, and his style was basically realistic with tonalism and luminism.

Little is known about his early childhood except that he referred to having lived on a large estate in Northern Illinois and credited his mother for his early art education and encouragement in that endeavor. His father was a country doctor and his mother a teacher in a girls' seminary. He took formal art study from a Professor Woodruff in Aurora, Illinois. In the late 1870s, he married Ida Pettibone of Lanesborough, Massachusetts, the community in which his parents had been born. He became an art instructor at the Jennings Seminary in Aurora, and began exhibiting landscape paintings in 1885. He was also an active member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony at Oregon, Illinois in the late 1800s.

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20 Book References for Henry Howard Bagg
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Simeone, Beth Baker (Author); Bob Logsdon, (Photography; Coleen Logsdon, (Design) The Art of Oregon: Influence of Eagle's Nest Art Colony and Rediscovered Collection They Left Behind 180 Yes
2006 Craig, Susan (Compiler) Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945 0 No
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 Hassrick, Peter H Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park 248 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
1995 Clabaugh, John H. H. Bagg: The Life and Times of Henry Howard Bagg
(Exhibition catalog)
12 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1986 Landon, Daryl R (Introduction) Museum of Nebraska Art: Opening Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
29 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
1982 Madden, Betty; Larry Emmons (Foreward) The Eagle's Nest Art Colony Collection: Arts Aliance Ogle County 59 Yes
1981 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
23 No
1978 Hoffman, Harry H.; Gary Zaruba A Survey of Nebraska Art Works Drawn from the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
20 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 Murphy, Thos Seven Wonderlands of the American West 0 Yes
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