biography of William Herbert DUNTON (1878-1936)

Birth place: Augusta, ME

Death place: Dover, NJ

Addresses: Ridgewood, NJ; Taos, NM

Profession: Painter, lithographer, illustrator, muralist

Studied: Cowles Art School, Boston; ASL, 1912, with Ernest Blumenschein; A.M. Anderson; DeCamp; DuMond; W.L. Taylor; L. Gaspard.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1915-32; Corcoran Gal, 1926-35; AIC; Salons of Am., 1926; Nashville, 1927 (gold); San Antonio, 1928 (prize), 1929 (prize); Pacific Southwest Expo, 1929 (prize)

Member: AFA; SC; Taos SA (founder); Soc. Ind. Artists; Springfield AA

Work: Soc. Applied Art, Peoria, IL; Witte Mem. Mus. of FA, San Antonio; Mus. New Mexico, Santa Fe; Univ. Club, Akron, Ohio; Santa Fe Railroad; WPA murals: Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City; Amon Carter Mus.

Comments: Had a summer studio in Taos, 1912; became a resident in 1921. Illustrator: Harpers, Scribner's, other magazines. Author, Painters of Taos" for American Magazine of Art, 1922. Specialty: paintings of the West.

Sources: WW33; P&H Samuels, 147, report that Dunton died in Albuquerque, NM; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 196. Marlor, Soc. Indp. Artists gives place of death as Taos, NM; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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