Waxed Dorland's Way
Artist: Charlie Dye
Date of Birth: 1906-1972
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Signed: Signed lower right/CA
Verso: Titled and dated 10/2/1973 verso
Frame/Outer Dim: 24 x 28
Uniting vignettes of action into a single painting, Branding Time is vintage Dye. Moving our eye around the scene in a shallow counterclockwise oval from roping, to tying an animal’s legs together, to preparing the brand, and, lastly, readying a salve, Dye’s desire is always to show the working life of the cowboy by depicting typical ranch chores and activities. A true cowboy artist, it was Charlie Dye, along with Joe Beeler and John Hampton, who came up with the idea of the Cowboy Artists of America while on a roundup in 1964. Of his own art, Dye said, “I have always tried to paint what I can remember of a life I led before I became dishonest and studied art. My old man could have forgiven me if I had turned out playing piano in a whorehouse, but artists rated one step below pimps in his book.” Whatever Charlie Dye depicted of cowboy life is something he experienced, not as an observer, but as an active participant.
Artist: Charlie Dye
Date of Birth: 1906-1972
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Signed: Signed lower right/CA
Verso: Titled and dated 10/2/1973 verso
Frame/Outer Dim: 24 x 28
Uniting vignettes of action into a single painting, Branding Time is vintage Dye. Moving our eye around the scene in a shallow counterclockwise oval from roping, to tying an animal’s legs together, to preparing the brand, and, lastly, readying a salve, Dye’s desire is always to show the working life of the cowboy by depicting typical ranch chores and activities. A true cowboy artist, it was Charlie Dye, along with Joe Beeler and John Hampton, who came up with the idea of the Cowboy Artists of America while on a roundup in 1964. Of his own art, Dye said, “I have always tried to paint what I can remember of a life I led before I became dishonest and studied art. My old man could have forgiven me if I had turned out playing piano in a whorehouse, but artists rated one step below pimps in his book.” Whatever Charlie Dye depicted of cowboy life is something he experienced, not as an observer, but as an active participant.
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