ARTIST: Edward Burns Quigley (Oregon, North Dakota, 1895 - 1984)
TITLE: River Landscape
YEAR: 1955
MEDIUM: oil on canvas board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 12 x 16 inches / 30 x 40 cm
FRAME SIZE: 15 x 19 inches / 38 x 48 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
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BIOGRAPHY:
Edward Burns Quigley was a pupil of Chicago Art Institute; Chicago Academy of Fine Arts as well as a member of Oregon Society of Artists; American Artists Professional League; Attic Club.Ed Quigley's family was in the horse business in North Dakota. At an early age, he showed an interest in horses and had a developing talent in drawing them. As a child he was often found sketching or whittling. When he was age five his family left North Dakota and moved to the Pacific Northwest where they eventually settled in Spokane WA.Quigley's art was greatly influenced by illustrations found in newsmagazines such as Harper's Weekly from the mid-to-late 1800s. His palette, loose brushstroke, sweeping arid landscapes, masculine focus, and fascination with spirited horses are similar to the paintings that were popular fifty years earlier. However, his vision of the western hero's relationship with nature is greatly different. The heroes of famous cowboy genre artists Frederick Remington and Charles Russell struggle to achieve dominance over a hostile uncivilized world.Edward Quigley painted the Irvington School murals in 1936, very early in his career as a western genre painter. Western themes were popular in art, music, novels, and movies, and ever present in the public's imagination. Quigley's vision of the West was very likely influenced by these sources as well as careful study of the masters of Cowboy painting and sculpting - Frederick Remington and Charles Russell. The murals also show a marked similarity to illustrations found in Harper's Weekly.