Artist · 3 prints
Charles Schreyvogel Prints
About Charles Schreyvogel
Charles Schreyvogel was an American painter, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 4 January 1861 and died there on 27 January 1912. His parents were German immigrant shopkeepers, and he grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, largely teaching himself to draw. From 1893 to 1905 he made frequent trips to the American West, gathering Native American and military material, and in 1894 he sketched performers at Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Brooklyn.
Schreyvogel painted the US cavalry in action on the frontier, full of galloping horses, smoke and close combat. He worked from his studio in Hoboken. His breakthrough was My Bunkie (1899), in which a trooper hauls a comrade who has lost his horse up onto his own mount, based on a story a veteran told him in Colorado. It won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize at the National Academy of Design and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles Schreyvogel's work is also held by the Gilcrease Museum and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Charles Schreyvogel prints: reproductions of the American Western paintings of US cavalry life that Charles Schreyvogel made around 1900. The collection includes My Bunkie (1899), The Last Drop (1900) and In Hot Pursuit.
This small selection focuses on the cavalry trooper and his horse. My Bunkie shows a rescue at full gallop, The Last Drop shows a trooper sharing the last of his water with his horse, and In Hot Pursuit shows a chase across open ground. The paintings combine fast movement with close attention to uniforms, saddles and horses.
The strong action and earth tones suit dens, offices, studies and living rooms, and the three paintings hang well together as a set. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
