Archie Musick
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Archie Leroy Musick (born January 19, 1902 in Kirksville, Missouri, the son of Levi Prince Musick and Zada or Sadie Goeghegan — died April 1978 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American painter. He studied under Thomas Hart Benton and Boardman Robinson.
His first major mural (5”x14”) was sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project and may be seen at Colorado City, Colorado, where for many years he was the art director at the Cheyenne Mountain School. Musick’s work can be seen as well in the Red Cloud, Nebraska Post Office [1], and also at his alma mater, Truman State University (B.Sc; then Northeast Missouri State Teachers’ College). He was commissioned by the class of 1928 to paint the snow-covered ruins of Old Baldwin Hall, destroyed in a 1924 fire. He described his first two mural commissions as "scenic pot-boilers on restaurant walls, (which) were happily destroyed by fire." He spent most of his career in Colorado, with a year (1946-7) teaching at the University of Missouri..
He was the brother of author and folklorist Ruth Ann Musick, and illustrated her collections Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales, Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe, and The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales.
He had children Edith Pauline Musick and Marvin Lee Musick.
[edit] Sources
- Who Was Who in American Art. Compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of American Art Annual: Who's Who in Art, Biographies of American Artists Active from 1898-1947. Edited by Peter Hastings Falk. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1985. (WhAmArt 1)
[edit] External links
“Chores on Pike’s Peak” [2]
[edit] Writing
- Oil Painting for Beginners (1930)
- Jigger Flies First (juvenile; 1957)
- Transplanting Culture. Magazine of Art March, 1937
- Musick Medley: Intimate Memories of a Rocky Mountain Art Colony Colorado Springs: Jane and Archie Musick 1971.
