Phippen Family - Ourfolk
George Albert Phippen 11 JUL 1915 - 13 APR 1966
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George was born on 11 JUL 1915 in Charles City, Iowa and died on 13 APR 1966 (age: 50) in Skull Valley, Yavapai, Arizona . He was the son of Joseph Albert Phippen (1 MAR 1878 - 12 MAR 1960) and Pearl Belle Brees (Phippen) (13 APR 1884 - 20 NOV 1947). George was married to Louise Ruby. Gobel (Phippen) on 8 JAN 1940 in Walla Walla, Washington. Louise was born on 28 APR 1924 in Hoquiam, Washington and died on 9 JAN 2001 (age: 76) in Deschutes, Oregon and was buried in Skull Valley, Yavapai, Arizona . She was the daughter of Leroy Jacob Gobel (28 JUL 1884 - 23 MAY 1948) and Ruby Corinne Vigar (Gobel) (B: 1892). View Family Chart - - -
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S1 Guasp GenealogyS2 George Phippen Retrospective
- Boss Has a Young'un - by George Phippen
'George and Louise Phippen were not wealthy people. He lived for his art and for the help he could give to new artists. They traded his art to pay the bills and take care of their family. As a result, most of George Phippen's work is now in private collections throughout the United States.'
George Phippen, Joe Beeler, John Hampton & Charlie Dye founded the Cowboy Artists of America in 1965 to encourage the creation and collection of western art in the tradition of Charles Russell and Fredric Remington.
Unfortunately, Phippen died before the new group was able to hold its first exhibition in 1966 at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. However, his influence on today's Western American Realism painters and sculptors lives on, as does the spark he rekindled for the lost wax process of bronze casting that stems from the tiny renaissance he began in Prescott in the 1950s
'Phippen's paintings and sculptures typically convey a keen sense of humor and an insight into the everyday life of working cowboys. He excelled at the looser, more painterly style of Western art in the 50s and 60s, and is known for his mastery of campfires, burning cigarettes and night skies.'
( http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa526.htm )
Draft Registration 1940
1950 CensusPhippen Museum Video
Prescott, Ariz (AP) -
George A. Phippen, president of the Cowboy Artists of America died of cancer Wednesday night at his Lone Burro ranch it was disclosed today.
Phippen, 50, was a widely known painter and sculptor.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow with butial in Skull Valley Cemetery.
Actor John Wayne commissioned Phippen in 1962 to do art work for the program for 'The Alamo', a motion picture produced that year.
Phippen was a former president of the Southwestern Men's Creative Arts Association.
His widow, Louise, a daiughter and four sons living in Skull Valley, near Prescott, survive.
A native of Charles City, Iowa, Phippen moved to Arizona as a youth and began his professional art career at Sante Fe, N.M after serving in the Amry in World War II
(April 15, 1966 Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada)
George A. Phippen, president of the Cowboy Artists of America died of cancer Wednesday night at his Lone Burro ranch it was disclosed today.
Phippen, 50, was a widely known painter and sculptor.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow with butial in Skull Valley Cemetery.
Actor John Wayne commissioned Phippen in 1962 to do art work for the program for 'The Alamo', a motion picture produced that year.
Phippen was a former president of the Southwestern Men's Creative Arts Association.
His widow, Louise, a daiughter and four sons living in Skull Valley, near Prescott, survive.
A native of Charles City, Iowa, Phippen moved to Arizona as a youth and began his professional art career at Sante Fe, N.M after serving in the Amry in World War II
(April 15, 1966 Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada)
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