Editing W. Herbert Dunton

{{Short description|American artist (1878–1936)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton
| image         = William Herbert Dunton - The horse rustler.jpg
| image_size    = 240px
| caption       = ''The Horse Rustler,'' ca. 1915
| birth_name    =
| birth_date    = {{birth date |1878|8|28|}}
| birth_place   = [[Augusta, Maine]]
| death_date    = {{death date |1936|3|18|}}
| death_place   = [[Taos, New Mexico]]
| nationality   = [[United States|American]]
| known_for     = [[Painting]]
| training      =
| movement      = [[Taos Society of Artists]]
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}}
'''William Herbert "Buck" Dunton''' (August 28, 1878 – March 18, 1936) was an American artist and a founding member of the [[Taos Society of Artists]]. He is noted for paintings of cowboys, [[New Mexico]], and the [[Southwestern United States|American Southwest]].

==Early life and education==
Dunton worked as a [[ranch]] hand as a youth and studied at the [[Cowles Art School]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].  He moved to New York City around 1903, where he worked as an illustrator for publishing companies.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schimmel |first=Julie |title=The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, 1878-1936 |year=1984 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin, TX |isbn=0292770316}}</ref> In 1912 he briefly studied at the [[Art Student's League]], where [[Ernest Blumenschein]] told him about [[Taos, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Samuels|first1=Peggy|last2=Samuels|first2=Harold|title=Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West|date=1985|publisher=Book Sales Inc|location=USA|isbn=1555210147|page=[https://archive.org/details/samuelsencyclope00samu/page/147 147]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/samuelsencyclope00samu/page/147}}</ref>

==Artistic career==
He first visited Taos in 1912 and became part of the [[Taos art colony]]. Dunton became one of the founding members of the [[Taos Society of Artists]] in 1915.

Among his proteges in [[Western (genre)|Western]] art was [[Harold Dow Bugbee]] of [[Clarendon, Texas|Clarendon]] and [[Canyon, Texas|Canyon]] in the [[Texas Panhandle]].

In 1921, American oil executive [[W. H. McFadden]] commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter [[Ben Lilly]].  The portrait was exhibited by the [[National Academy of Design]] before being located in McFadden's home in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dobbie |first=J. Frank |year=1997 |title=The Ben Lilly Legend |publisher=University Of Texas Press |location=Austin, TX |isbn=0-292-70728-2}}</ref> His work was part of the [[Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics#Painting|painting event]] in the [[Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics|art competition]] at the [[1932 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921493 |title=W. Herbert Dunton |work=Olympedia |access-date=4 August 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.askart.com/askart/d/buck_dunton/buck_dunton.aspx AskArt: ''William Herbert Dunton'', Biography]
*[http://www.africahunting.com/hunting-pictures-videos/showphoto.php?photo=7146&title=benjamin-vernon-lilly&cat=500 Africa Hunting:  Painting of Ben Lilly by Herbert Dunton]
*[http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/asimages/People$004014?t:state:flow=7fd37b58-7128-4f68-97a3-95c6b4e4c2bc W. Herbert Dunton] at [[New Mexico Museum of Art]]
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* {{FadedPage|id=Dunton, William Herbert|name=William Herbert Dunton (illustrator)|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=W. Herbert Dunton}}
* {{Find a Grave|8153929}}

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