Birth of Geronimo
Oil-on-Canvas 30 x 40 Framed Original
$8,500
Kiowa Castle
Oil-on-Canvas 11 x 14 Framed Original
$1,800
Lookout
Oil-on-Canvas 14 x 11 Framed Original
$1,800
Birdman
Oil-on-Canvas 5" x 6" Framed Original
$450
Shannon Stirnweis
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1931, his ambitions fixed on becoming an
artist while in grade school. This interest, sometimes detoured by
sports and studies, continued throughout high school and a year at the
University of Oregon. He completed his education with five years a the
Art Center
of Design in Los Angeles, winning a school scholarship and American
Institute of graphic Design scholarship.After graduating, he served two years in the army as an illustrator in Germany. This allowed him the opportunity to visit European museums to study their paintings.
Out of the army and school in the late fifties, he found making a living for galleries was not a viable alternative. He sought illustration on the east coast. In New York City he progressed from an agency sketch job through free lancing adventure pulps to slick magazines such as Argosy, Boys Life, Time and Field and Stream. He worked on magazine covers for a large number of paperback publishers and illustrated over thirty children’s book. His advertising clients varied from pharmaceuticals, industrial, movies and stamps.
After serving two years as President of the Society of Illustrators in New York he followed the lead of many former illustrators and entered the field of gallery painting.
The discipline and systematic research skills developed as and illustrator serve him well when combined with love of western subjects.
He is represented in the permanent collections of the U. S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army historical museum. Leaning Tree, Marriot, Grumbacker, Rumley, C. B. S., Burt Reynolds, California Federal Savings University of Texas ( El Paso) University of Wyoming and Pippin Museum . He has participated at the Hunterton Art Center, New York Historical Society and Smithsonian.
His biography appears in the Illustrator in America 1880- 1990, “ Contemporary Western Artist”, 200 Years of American Illustration, Who’s Who in America and Marquis.
