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We Beat Auction Houses $$$Conrad Buff (1886-1975)
Born in Speicher, Switzerland,
the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had
an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic
paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest.
He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner,
and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also
learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately
influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a
major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to
copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived
the heady life of a young man.
However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took
the first train West. He was briefly on a Wisconsin ranch, working
as a sheep herder and then for ten years roamed the West doing odd
jobs such as cooking in cafes, bartending, and driving mules on a
railroad construction gang. He relieved the monotony by painting in
his spare time.
He also explored lithography and silk screen painting and drew
directly on stone or zinc plates. With his wife, Mary Marsh, he
wrote and illustrated two books: "Dancing Cloud," and "Kobi."
In 1906, he moved to Los Angeles and from 1907, painted in Arizona.
Maynard Dixon was a frequent sketching companion. Buff did a number
of large scale murals for banks, schools, and libraries, and with
well-known California artist, Edgar Payne, painted a 1000 foot mural
for a Chicago hotel. He died in Laguna Hills, California on March
11, 1975.
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