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A leading illustrator of western subjects for the Saturday Evening Post, Donald Teague became a founding member of the National Academy of Western Art in 1973. His pseudonymn was "Edwin Dawes", a name he used when he did illustrations for Colliers magazine because that publication and the Post were great rivals, and he did not want to appear to be serving both of them.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied with George Bridgman and Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York and with Norman Wilkinson in London. Then Teague returned to the Art Students League where Dean Cornwell encouraged him to go into illustration.
In 1938, Teague made a risky move away from New York, the source of his illustration assignments, to California, but the publishers sought him out there. He first lived in Encino, and then from 1949 settled in Carmel.
In 1948, he was elected a National Academician and in 1958, became a full-time fine artist. In 1953 and 1954, he earned major awards from the American Watercolor Society, the first to win two awards in succession.
His work is in numerous collections including the Frye Museum in Seattle; Mills College in Oakland and the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Source:
Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, p. 197
The following biography is from the archives of askART.
Born in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 27, 1897, Donald Teague studied at the Art Students League in NYC under George Bridgman, Dean Cornwell, and Frank DuMond and, after serving in WWI, with Norman Wilkinson in England.
He moved to California in 1938 and lived in Encino until 1949 when he settled in Carmel. Teague was elected to the National Academy in 1948 and soon gained national renown.
For 35 years he was one of the nation's top magazine illustrators; his work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, McCall's, Woman's Home Companion and others under the pseudonym Edwin Dawes (not to be confused with the landscape painter Edwin Dawes (1875-1945).
In 1958, he gave up commercial work to concentrate on fine art. His paintings and illustrations are primarily of the Old West.
Teague was active as an artist until his demise in Carmel on Dec. 13, 1991.
Memberships:
Carmel Art Association; American Watercolor Society; Salmagundi Club; Bohemian Club; National Academy of Western Art; Cowboy Artists of America.
Exhibitions:
National Academy of Design, 1948 (gold medal); American Water Color Society, 1953 (grand prize), 1964 (gold medal); Franklin Mint, 1973-75 (gold medals).
Collections:
Cowboy Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City); Frye Museum (Seattle); Oakland Museum; U.S. Air Force Collection; Monterey Peninsula Museum; Pepperdine College (Malibu); Mills College (Oakland).
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Interview with the artist or his/her family; American Art Annual 1933; Who's Who in America; Who's Who in American Art 1936-70; Who's Who in California 1942; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); American Western Art (Harmsen); Artists of the American West (Samuels); Art of California , Sept 1992.
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