COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Bill Gollings
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 1076
Item Description:
Gollings, Bill - Biographical information for Elling William "Bill" Gollings; "Bill Gollings, Cowboy Artist", Sherman Press, Feb. 23, 1936; "Romances of Wyoming - Elling William Gollings", Sheridan Press, Apr. 24, 1932; "E. W. Gollings, "The Cow-Boy Artist", no source, n.d.
Date:
Undated
Notes:
born: Mar. 17, 1878, on a farm near the mining camp of Pierce City (Clearwater Co., Idaho Territory)
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ranch (Lewistown, Idaho)
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farmer, bull whacker and cowboy (S. D., Mont. & Neb.)
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artist - ordered Montgomery Ward oil colors & painting equipment (winter, 1903)
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first oil paintings - client, W. E. Freeman, furniture store (Sheridan, Wyo.)
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horse outfit, worker
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manufacturer of Michle printing press bought paintings - led to Chicago Academy of Find Arts, student-scholarship
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built shack studio (Sheridan, Wyo. - Feb., 1909)
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4 paintings in Capitol building: "Smoke Signal", "Indian Attack on Overland Stage", "Emigrants on the Platte" & "Wagon Box Fight" (Cheyenne, Wyo. - Feb. 1923)
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pursued by Ute Indians (near Moorhead, Mont. - Oct., 1906)
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"Last Surrender of the Utes" painting, location unk.
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Golling, Mrs. Maude May Scrivener (wife, born: Sep. 17, 1884, at Republic, Mo. - married: 1917 - died: Aug. 9, 19790, at San Deigo Co., Calif. - buried: unknown (Memorial ID: 18570466)
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died: Apr. 16, 1932 (age: 54), at Sheridan (Sheridan Co., Wyo.)
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buried: Sheridan Municipal Cemetery (Plot: Block 8, Lot 18 - Memorial ID: 47674560) at Sheridan
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farm boy, near St. Johns (Mich. 1881) and Cooksockie (near Albany, N. Y)
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early education (Chicago, Ill.)
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