Attributed to Charlie Dye, private collection, no coa medium: oil measurements:31"wX38"h framed, mint condition, no glass in frame Biography: Charlie Dye became a painter of western genre inspired by the work of Charles Russell. Charlie Dye (1906 - 1972) was active/lived in Arizona, Colorado. Charlie Dye is known for Cowboy-western genre painting, magazine illustration He is best known for his depictions of cowboys chasing down or branding their cattle and fictional scenes from the American Old West replete with pioneers and Native Americans. Born on October 30, 1906 in Canon City, CO, he spent much of his youth amidst horses and farm animals, as his father was a Texas Trail cowhand.Dye was a successful illustrator in New York, doing assignments for Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, Outdoor Life and The American Weekly. However, a trip to California alerted him to how little quality Western art existed, and he soon began vacationing and painting in the West, finally establishing a studio in Denver, Colorado and becoming a partner in the Colorado Institute of Art.Because of the wide acceptance of his painting, he gave up teaching and illustrating and in 1960, moved to Sedona, Arizona, where he gained recognition for his oil paintings of western scenes. Dye began making art after recovering in the hospital from an injury sustained from falling off a horse, and went on to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist died in 1972 in Sedona, AZ. Today, Dye’s works are in the collections of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City and the National Center for American Western Art in Kerrville, TX, among others.