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Archie Boyd and Patricia Teater Studio-Residence, Bliss, Idaho (1952 - S.352)
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The Archie B. Teater Collection
The Artist
During a career that spanned over fifty years, Archie Boyd Teater continued to paint in the outdoor light. His plein air landscapes were inspired by the mountainous beauty of his birthplace in Idaho. Throughout his lifetime, Teater continued to paint the Western landscape, in addition to the landscapes of the many countries he visited. Landscapes and street scenes from Scandinavia, the British Isles, Western Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, the Orient, South America, Australia and New Zealand comprise what is known as his International Collection.
Teater’s paintings have been featured in museum exhibitions next to work by artists such as Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, Thomas Moran, Thomas Hart Benton, in addition to John Sloan and John Carroll in New York galleries.
Teater, born in 1901, balanced his early painting career between the need to earn a living and his passion for painting. He worked alongside miners, trappers and lumberjacks who had little patience or understanding for the sensitive artist, and so he would often take his wagon into the mountains, where he enjoyed the solitude, to work for days on his landscapes.
Teater attended art school at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon from 1921 through 1922, but soon returned to the outdoors where he found work as a trail blazer for the emerging Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. This experience in the Tetons began Teater’s life-long love affair with the Wyoming Mountains. Beginning in 1928, Teater continued to return each spring to the Tetons, where he pitched a tent on the shores of Jenny Lake and exhibited his paintings by leaning them against the pine trees that surrounded his camp. When he was away from his campsite, a note requested that art buyers pin their payments to a bed blanket. Archie Teater soon became known as “Teton Teater”.
Beginning in the early 1930s, Teater attended classes each winter at the Art Students League of New York where he studied life drawing, painting, composition and illustration with artists such as Robert Brackman, George Bridgeman, Reginald Marsh and Ivan Olinsky. New Yorkers were fascinated by this quiet, cowboy artist and his western art. His name began to appear in the art columns and magazines in New York, and he gave interviews to Look and Better Homes and Gardens, in addition to making television appearances.
In 1941, Teater returned to Jackson, Wyoming, and rented the Railway Express office where he started his Jackson Hole Art Gallery. The gallery brought him world-wide fame as visitors crowded into his studio to have their portraits done. It was during this time in Jackson that he met his future wife, Patricia, through an introduction by some friends. Together, they commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build a special studio and home for them in Hagerman, Idaho.
Archie Teater loved to travel, and during his career introduced his work to patrons throughout the U.S. and abroad who collected many of the canvases which documented his adventures across the country and the world. Although Teater had always returned to his beloved Tetons each summer, he and his wife Patricia eventually retired to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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