Pueblito by Charles Damrow
35" x 47"   Oil   SOLD   

CHARLES DAMROW

     Charles Damrow was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1916.  He died in Oneida, Wisconsin in 1989.  Damrow was the youngest of 15 children and ran away out west at the age of 13.  He worked during his lifetime as a cowboy, a forester, and a sign painter.  He was a paratrooper in WWII.  The walls of taverns and restaurants throughout the Wisconsion Dells were decorated by him with scenes of the Old West.  Damrow, who drifted between acclaim and obscurity, had associations and friendships with many notable westerners, including Olaf Wieghorst, Barry Goldwater, Peter McDonald and Bill McGee.  His largest painting is "Crow Buffalo Hunters" which measures  8' x 10.  His paintings are highly collectible, held in private collections, municipal buildings, and corporate collections.  Damrow has been noted in the Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West (Samuels), American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory (Snodgrass), American Artists at Auction 1645-1945, (Currier), Artists Blue Book, Southwest the Land and the People, and numerous magazines and newspaper articles.  Damrow was largely self taught and enjoyed painting nostalgic scenes of the frontier.