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Archie Musick (1902-1978)

The Carved Door (Mountains, Trees, and Elk on Wooden Door), Painting

The Carved Door (Mountains, Trees, and Elk on Wooden Door), Painting

The Carved Door, original tempera painting by Colorado artist Archie Musick. This rusic composition depicts modernist figures of mountains, trees, birds, and elk on a field painted to resemble a wooden door. Tempera on board. Signed by the artist, lower right; Titled on reverse. Presented in a custom frame.

Size: 19 ½ x 8 ½ inchesFramed 22 x 11 x ¾ inches
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Artist Biography - Archie Musick (1902-1978)

Studied: Northeast Missouri State Teacher College (B.S., 1928), Broadmoor Art Academy with Randall Davey and Ernest Lawson, 1927, 28 (summers), with Boardman Robinson 1932-34; at the Art Students League with Kimon Nicolaides and Thomas Hart Benton, 1929-30 and in California with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1930-32. Taught at Cheyenne School District in Colorado Springs beginning 1935, taught intermittently over next years, then at Cheyenne Mountain High School, 1953-69; University of Missouri, 1946-47; Columbia College (MO), 1948-51; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1971. Murals: South Church, Moberly, MO (circa 1927); Municipal Auditorium, Colorado Springs, CO (1935); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (1937); Northeast Missouri State Teacher College (1941); Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School, Colorado Springs (1954); post offices in Red Cloud, NE (1941); Manitou Springs, CO (1932). Author/illustrator of Oil Painting for Beginners (1929); "Transplanting of Culture," Magazines of Art (March, 1937); "Artists West of the Mississippi," Magazine of Art (September, 1938); Musick Medley: Intimate Memories of a Rocky Mountain Art Colony (1971). Had regular column, "Artist and Art," in Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph beginning April, 1938. Selected exhibitions: Denver Annual, 1928 (prize); Broadmoor Art Academy, 1928 (prize); Colorado State Fair, 1927, 28, 30, 50 (prizes for last three); Artists West of the Mississippi, 1936-38, 40-41, 45; New York World's Fair, 1939; Art Institute of Chicago, 1940; Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 1941; Carnegie International, 1941; Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1945; Corcoran Gallery, 1951; Civic Center Library, Scottsdale, AZ, 1971 (one-man); Saks Galleries, Denver, CO, 1973, 75, 77 (one-man). Work in National Museum of American Art, Missouri State Historical Society, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, private collections in Denver and Colorado Springs.