Robert Wesley Amick. Untitled. [Cowboys on horseback, herding cattle.]
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 38 works of art, along with one text document related to the artwork.
Beard donated sixteen oil paintings. Texas artists Ulrich W. Fisher, Joseph Lane, Gerald Harvey Jones (G. Harvey), Renne Hughes, and Porfirio Salinas are represented in the collection, as well as paintings by Earl G. Hammock (Arizona), Robert Wesley Amick (Connecticut/Colorado), Oscar Edmund Berninghas (New Mexico/Missouri/Kansas), Ross Stefan (Arizona), Harry Worthman (New York), Leonard Howard Reedy (Illinois), Mike Carroll (unknown), and William Herbert Dunton (Main/New Mexico). Many of the paintings are Texas landscapes and scenes related to the old West.
Beard also selected twenty engravings produced by Star Engraving Company of Houston, Texas. Nine of these engravings were created by artist Bernhardt Wall.
Dates
- early 20th century
Creator
- From the Collection: Beard, Roy J. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Researchers are encouraged to use digital surrogates. In-person research with original artwork(s) must be approved/scheduled by the University Archivist.
Biographical / Historical
ROBERT WESLEY AMICK (1879-1969, CONNECTICUT/COLORADO)
Born in a log cabin in Canon City, Colorado, Amick became an illustrator of Western subjects, painter, printmaker, commercial artist and teacher. He grew up in the Colorado cattle country during the 1880's amidst cowboys, Ute and Sioux Indians, homesteaders and prospectors.
He earned a law degree from Yale University while also taking art courses. After practicing law for two years in Ohio, he becamea full time artist, taking private lessons and studying at the Arts Student League in New York.
He did illustrations for Harpers, Scribners, The American and other publications but was most comfortable portraying the West as he remembered it as a young man.
Sources:
"Robert Amick," AskART, https://www.askart.com/artist/Robert_Wesley_Amick/7718/Robert_Wesley_Amick.aspx (accessed Jun 20, 2022).
"Robert Wesley Amick," Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35703723/robert-wesley-amick (accessed June 20, 2022).
Extent
From the Collection: 39 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Possibly the painting described in a College Star article as "cattle drive scene," donated July 21, 1964.
Physical Description
Framed oil painting on canvas
Dimensions
30" x 40"
General
Robert Wesley Amick (1879-1969)
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository
Alkek Library Room 580
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
univarchives@txstate.edu
