Publisher's Synopsis
Artist, educator, inventor, and naturalist, Charles Franklin Reaugh (1860 1945), pronounced Ray, is one of the Southwest's earliest and most distinguished artists. Working in the vein of American Impressionism, Reaugh devoted his career to visually documenting the immense unsettled regions of the Southwest before the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on more than one hundred artworks from the Harry Ransom Center's Frank Reaugh collection, as well as public and private collections across the state, the book examines Reaugh's mastery of the pastel medium and his sophisticated yet direct approach to landscape painting, particularly the challenges of painting outdoors.
