All Ranney William Tylee's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
45362 Der Aufklarungstrupp Der Aufklarungstrupp mk181 1851 Ol auf Leinwand 55.8x91.4cm
96894 Mountains with Stores for His Brother Daniel Mountains with Stores for His Brother Daniel 1852, oil on canvas cyf
32001 On the Wing On the Wing mk77 c.1850 Oil on canvas 32x45in
50946 Pennsylvania Teamster Pennsylvania Teamster mk217
Ranney William Tylee
German-born American Painter, 1813-1857 American painter. He spent six formative years in the hill country of North Carolina. By 1834 he was working and studying drawing in New York, but two years later he went to Texas to join in the war for independence. Although he returned to New York a year later, it was not until 1846, with the outbreak of the Mexican War, that Ranney began to use his Western experience as the basis for his painting. With the encouragement of the American Art Union, he executed three types of Western subject: the Western trapper or hunter, pursuing a dangerous life on the prairies, as in Trapper's Last Shot (1850; untraced; engraved and lithographed by T. Dwight Booth); the pioneer family, heading across the plains with children, dogs and goods, as in Advice on the Prairie (1853; Malvern, PA, Claude J. Ranney priv. col.); and the dangers of emigration, for example Prairie Fire. . Related Artists to : | Gabrie Metsu | Pierre-Jacques Volaire | Zdenka Braunerova | Domenico Brusasorci | Johann Jakob Biedermann |