Civil War Confederate Calvary Illustration Oil painting By Guy Deel. Signed
This painting features an illustration of a Confederate Calvary(possibly Virginia Calvary)general charging into battle in full uniform with his sword raised and his trusted revolver holstered on his waist. The cannon is still smoking, fresh from delivering a round in the battle. The artist has signed this painting in the lower right corner. It has an affixed Altermann Galleries label on the reverse(see pictures). It is housed in a dark toned carved wooden picture frame.
A few thin surface scratches. Some grime or crazing near bottom(see picture). But overall colorful vibrant and wonderful.
Frame - 34 1/2" x 28 1/2". Painting - 30" x 24". Telling the story of the West has always been fascinating to Guy Deel, who was the son and grandson of cowboys. His family homesteaded in Texas in 1887.
His parents were married in a horse-and-buggy with all the witnesses and guests sitting in buggies outside the church. "Not many artists have a chance to portray the story of our country in epic form seen by millions over who knows how many years, " he told interviewer Carol Lea Clark in a 1988 "Southwest Art" magazine story. Deel began his 50-year career at 17 working in an animation studio in Dallas.The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles offered him a scholarship, and he graduated in 1955. During the 1950's Deel spent two years creating recruiting posters on Governor's Island in New York for the Army.
His illustration career began during that period. He kept very busy doing illustrations for major publications such as "Saturday Evening Post, " "Esquire, " "Readers' Digest, " and Ladies Home Journal.
He also illustrated national advertising campaigns for major agencies in New York and California. In the early'6Os Deel moved from New York to California, where he continued doing magazine and book illustrations.He also worked as an art director and director in television and film production. In 1974 Deel began a long association with Walt Disney Studios starting with layout and visual development on "The Rescuers". He also worked in live action as a story board artist, and designed titles for several Disney features during that period. In 1976 Deel began doing book covers for several paperback publishers including Bantam, Berkley-Jove, and Signet.
He has done over 25O book covers for writers such as Elmer Kelton, J. He continued working for Disney during the seventies for four years as a consulting designer and artist on EPCOT. Several of his paintings are still featured at the American Pavilion at EPCOT in Florida.
He also worked with Disney Imagineering and the Autry Museum of Western Art conceiving and designing the 138 foot mural for the museum's theme court. In 1986 and 1987 Deel was the production stylist on'Oliver and Company. He later worked for two years with Don Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland, doing story and visual development for "Thumbelina, " and The Pebble and the Penguin. He lived in Cambria, California, a seaside village on California's Central Coast, with his wife, Lynne.
He created a large (7 feet long) painting commissioned by his home town, Irving, Texas, to commemorate the town's 1OOth Anniversary in October, 2OO3. The item "Civil War Confederate Calvary Illustration Oil painting By Guy Deel. Signed" is in sale since Tuesday, October 25, 2016.
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- Style: Illustration Art
- Signed?: Signed
- Medium: Oil
- Date of Creation: Unknown
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Region of Origin: US
- Artist: Guy Deel
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Painting Surface: Panel
- Framed/Unframed: Framed
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 30in.