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James Ralston

James Kenneth Ralston (1896 - 1987) was active/lived in Montana.  James Ralston is known for Historical-west, genre painting, illustration.

James Kenneth Ralston was born in Choteau, Montana, on March 31, 1896. His paternal grandparents, left Independence, Missouri, by ox team for the gold camps of Colorado in 1859. His father was the first born to Samuel F. and Mary Gregg Ralston. In 1863, they headed for Idaho, and in 1864 they moved to the Alder Gulch area in the Montana Territory. In the spring of 1878, his father, Will Ralston, moved the Ralston cattle to the Teton River near Choteau, Montana.

In 1885, Will Ralston married Ellen Mathewson and they had five children of which James Kenneth Ralston was the fifth child. In 1903, Will Ralston took over as the general manager of the Flying U Ranch near Choteau, Montana. They then moved to Helena where James Kenneth Ralston received his first formal art instruction. In 1905, his father was engaged by B. H. Tatum of Helena to put together a cow outfit. In 1906, the family moved from Helena to the Capital P ranch just south of the Missouri River across from the Fort Pe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2854 characters.]  Artist bio

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19 Book References for James Ralston
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
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Popovich, John A The Voice of the Curlew: J K Ralston's Story of his Life 271 Yes
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
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Hassrick, Royal B Western Painting Today 175 Yes
1972 Paladin, Vivian A Rendezvous of Western Art, 1972
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1969 Burk, Dale New Interpretations 0 No
1968 Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward) The Cowboy in Art 242 Yes
1959 Huntington, Bill Both Feet in the Stirrups 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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