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<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="2" FACE="HELVETICA,ARIAL"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">At
the height of his career, <B>NICK EGGENHOFER (1897-1985)</B> was known
as the "King of the Pulps" for his western dry-brush illustrations. No
one could touch him for the authenticity and raw honesty of his subjects.
As a young immigrant from Germany, he had steeped himself in the lore
of the frontier West, accumulating guns, chaps, Indian headdresses and
other props, even building models of everything from stagecoaches to ore
wagons to ensure accuracy in his work.<BR>
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From his studio in New Jersey, he produced thousands of western vignettes
in black and white dry-brush for Street and Smith and other pulp publishers
from the 1920s through the 40s.<BR>
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Eventually, he settled in Wyoming and continued to produce highly esteemed
watercolors and oils for the Western galleries up to the end of his career,
but he never surpassed the vigor of his earlier work.<BR>
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Eggenhofer's work is in several museum collections of western art, and
received the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Trustees Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Western Art in 1973.<BR>
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Mustang", ca.1935; brush & ink, 7.25 x 10.5"]</B></font>
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