Charles Schreyvogel

File:My Bunkie MET DT381.jpg by Charles Schreyvogel, 1899, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Paul and Theresa Schreyvogel,[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/998/mode/2up Schreyvogel, Charles], in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org and grew up in a poor family of German immigrant shopkeepers on the Lower East Side of New York. Schreyvogel was unable to afford art classes and he taught himself to draw.

When Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show came to Brooklyn in 1894, Schreyvogel visited to sketch.{{cite journal |last1=Bonner |first1=Robert E. |title='Not an imaginary picture altogether, but parts': The Artistic Legacy of Buffalo Bill Cody |journal=Montana The Magazine of Western History |date=Spring 2011 |volume=61 |issue=1 |page=50 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23054777 |access-date=5 December 2023}} He went on to become famous for his depictions of the American West, although he did much of his work in his studio (or its rooftop) in decidedly non-Western Hoboken.Hughes, Robert. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090209073053/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972933,00.html "How The West Was Spun"], Time, May 13, 1991. Accessed August 14, 2007. "It is of Charles Schreyvogel, a turn-of-the- century Wild West illustrator, painting in the open air. His subject crouches alertly before him: a cowboy pointing a six-gun. They are on the flat roof of an apartment building in Hoboken, N.J."

In 1901, his painting My Bunkie was awarded the Thomas Clarke Prize at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design.[http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/r_a_schr.html Charles Schreyvogel Papers], National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Accessed August 14, 2007. He suddenly became recognized and earned what seemed like overnight fame.

He died in Hoboken in 1912 and is buried in Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen, New Jersey.[https://books.google.com/books?id=OUsYAAAAIAAJ Project Remember], p. 42

Works by Schreyvogel are included in the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,[http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/g_arto.html William S. and Ann Atherton Art of the American West Gallery] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234609/http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/g_arto.html |date=September 26, 2007 }}, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Accessed August 14, 2007. the Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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• Charles Marion Russell, western artist
• J. K. Ralston, western artist
• Frederic Remington, western artist

• James D. Horan. The Life And Art Of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian Of The Indian-Fighting Army Of The American West. New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1969.
• Rick Stewart. The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier. Hawthorne Publishing Company, 1986.

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• [http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=11009304 Charles (or Carl) Schreyvogel (1861-1912)]
• [https://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/gallery.php/art/attack-on-herd Attack on the Herd, ca.1907, Sid Richardson Museum], includes biography

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