Harold Dow Bugbee, Western painter and illustrator, was born on August 15, 1900, in Lexington, Massachusetts, son of Charles H. and Grace L. (Dow) Bugbee. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in 1953, 1961, 1970, 1987, and 1994; in 1990 the museum installed a reconstruction of Bugbee's studio. Bugbee exhibits were presented at the Nita Stewart Haley Library at Midland in 1992 and the Cattleman's Museum at Fort Worth in 1993. He also exhibited at Dalhart (1929), Amarillo (1930, 1931, and 1938), Abilene (1931), the University Centennial Exposition in Austin (1936), the Fort Worth Frontier Exposition (1936), and the West Texas Art Exhibition at Fort Worth (1939). An early trail-driving scene of cattleman R. B. Masterson that Bugbee painted on wood panels hangs in the Hall of State in Dallas. He was the husband (first) of Katherine Patrick and (second) Olive Vandruff Bugbee, also an artist, who died in Clarendon in 2003.
Harold Dow Bugbee, Western painter and illustrator, was born on August 15, 1900, in Lexington, Massachusetts, son of Charles H. and Grace L. (Dow) Bugbee. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in 1953, 1961, 1970, 1987, and 1994; in 1990 the museum installed a reconstruction of Bugbee's studio. Bugbee exhibits were presented at the Nita Stewart Haley Library at Midland in 1992 and the Cattleman's Museum at Fort Worth in 1993. He also exhibited at Dalhart (1929), Amarillo (1930, 1931, and 1938), Abilene (1931), the University Centennial Exposition in Austin (1936), the Fort Worth Frontier Exposition (1936), and the West Texas Art Exhibition at Fort Worth (1939). An early trail-driving scene of cattleman R. B. Masterson that Bugbee painted on wood panels hangs in the Hall of State in Dallas. He was the husband (first) of Katherine Patrick and (second) Olive Vandruff Bugbee, also an artist, who died in Clarendon in 2003.
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