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Original Oil on Canvas by August Lenox

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Original Oil on Canvas by August Lenox
"Fire in the Sky" signed lower left. Image measures 23 1/2" x 35 1/2" with linen inset that needs to be replaced and a carved wood frame. Mr. August Lenox was born in 1908, in a sod house homestead on the plains of North Dakota. As a young boy, he was fascinated by the adventures and lives of pirates and painted several scenes of them on canvases. He also wrote several stories about their lives. In the1950s, he worked for Walt Disney illustrating comic magazines for children. Lenox became a permanent resident of the Texas Hill Country where he painted western subjects in oil of cowboys and Indians. He painted these true-to-life stories into his canvases because he lived them as part of the Chuck Wagon West. Now in his middle sixties, long gone from the Cow Camps, Lenox paints the passing scenes of our Wild West. While not anti-social this man was neither a mixer nor joiner but one of the real Cow Pokes of the open range Cow Camps. He painted western art based on a true story in every painting. A permanent Foundation has been established in Los Angeles to house several series of Lenox's Historical Paintings about the early West. The first of this series which includes the twenty large paintings that tell the tragic story of the great buffalo slaughter has been completed and hung. Other series are being painted at this time.