ARTIST: Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (New Mexico, 1889 - 1977)
NAME: Landscape
MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper
CONDITION: Very good.
SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 21 inches / 35 x 53 cm
MAT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Alton, New York, Cyrus Baldridge became a noted illustrator, set designer, and painter of Southwestern desert and mountain landscapes.During his childhood, his family moved frequently, but he received art training from age ten, first studying with famous newspaper illustrator Frank Holme. He earned a degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1911, and then took a number of jobs including cow puncher. During World War I, he was a field artist. Following that, he sketched in China, doing commissions for "Scribner's Magazine."In the 1920s, he and his wife traveled widely including to the Far East, Afghanistan, Persia, and Africa, and these cultures became the subjects of many of his illustrations. In 1926, he first visited New Mexico and stayed at the San Juan Pueblo because of the arrangements made by a friend. From that time, he frequently returned to the Southwest.After 1932, he lived in the United States and continued to illustrate books, and also designed stage sets and wrote his autobiography. During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, he incorporated Southwestern subjects as themes, and in 1952 settled permanently in Santa Fe, where he worked for two decades painting the landscape in oil and watercolor. At least in 1917, Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge was a private in the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) in the Great War. And in 1919, also as a private, he was at the Peace Conference where, on February 14, he sketched "President Woodrow Wilson reading the Draft Covenant of the League of Nations," in which sketch he identifies General Bliss, Colonel House, Secretary Lansing, the President, M. Clemceau and Mr. Balfour.