Gerard Curtis Delano (1890 - 1972) American. Watercolor. Measure 9 3/4"in H x 13 1/4"in W and 17"in H x 19 3/4"in W with frame. Gerald Curtis Delano (1890-1972) was born in Marion, Massachusetts, only twenty miles from Plymouth Rock. The sale of a pen-and-ink drawing to "Life" magazine encouraged Delano, who had been drawing Indians and horses since he was four to take up art as a career. He trained at the Swaine Free School of Design near his home. In 1910, he moved to New York, worked as a textile designer and attended classes at the Art Students League. He later went to the Grand Central School of Art where he worked under such noted artists as N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn.After completing his education, Delano maintained a studio in New York and worked as an illustrator. His first trip to the West was in 1919. In 1921, he homesteaded in the mountains of Summit County, Colorado, where he built himself a log cabin studio with a dirt roof. A trip to the Navajo country was a decisive factor in Delano's becoming a western artist, for there he found his favorite subjects--the gentle and dignified Navajo people in their colorful costumes against the spectacular towering walls of the canyons of Arizona. He painted scenes of the Indians tending their flocks of sheep and goats with a deep understanding of their way of life. He left the homestead and moved to Colorado Springs, and later established a home and studio in Denver.

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