Joe/Joseph Scheuerle

[grahamew]

I can't read the signature! Does anyone know anything more or know of any more? I'm assuming the last one at least was painted on location.


Charging Hawk, 1909


Iron Tail, 1909


Short Bull, White Clay Camp, 1909

[wolfgang]

Hey grahamew,
his name is Josef Scheuerle, 1873-1948. He was a German from Stuttgart. Go to google and you will get more infos.

[grahamew]

Great. Thanks, Wolfgang!

[Dietmar]

Here´s a bit about Scheuerle:

Joe Scheurele
1873-1948

Scheuerle's family migrated to the United States from Vienna, Austria in 1882. He attended public schools in the old German section of Cincinnati, took lessons at the Cincinnati Art Academy, and taught at Ohio Military Institute and other regional schools, before he took a steady commercial job at Cincinnati's famous Strobridge Lithographing Company, which printed hundreds of full-color posters for Barnum & Bailey, Adam Forepaugh, The Ringling Brothers, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Scheuerle put his drawing talents to work on the colorful animals and performers featured in these traveling shows, doing sketches from life for eventual printing. His work was literally pasted throughout the United States. Scheuerle met William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody in Chicago when he went to work for another printing company. He also made friends with other performers in the Wild West Show - especially Iron Tail of the Sioux. He later traveled to the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota to spend time and paint him in his home country. (Iron Tail later died on a train, while working for Buffalo Bill.) Joe visited with the Native Americans regularly with his wife Carolyn and daughter Margaret until he was sixty-five years old. He sketched the outstanding Sioux general Red Cloud, and many other survivors of the Indian wars of the late Nineteenth Century. When Glacier National Park was chartered by Congress in 1910, Scheuerle was visiting the Blackfeet, and met Charles M. Russell. They struck up a long friendship. Joe also worked for Louis W. Hill, drawing the Mountain Goat logo for the Great Northern Railway, and producing some of the commercial art for Hill's See America First campaign. Joe Scheuerle's social circle included artists J. H. Sharp and Joe DeYong, William S. Hart, the movie actor, and Will Rogers, cowboy-turned-Broadway-star.

At his homes in Chicago or New Jersey, he made all of his acquaintances welcome. He hosted Many Coups of the Crow Nation, and even took him to the Lincoln Park Zoo.

www.hockadaymuseum.org/index.cfm?inc=page&page=251&mother=240&page_content=Joe%20Scheurele%20at%20the%20Hockaday%20Museum%20of%20Art


Wolf Eagle
Joe Scheurele
Lithograph 1913
Hockaday Museum Permanent Collection

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The artist Joe Scheuerle, his wife Carolyn and daughter Margaret (1914). Scheuerle is almost certainly wearing the plaited quilled shirt which he obtained from White Powder in 1911.


Portrait of White Powder wearing plaited quilled shirt which Joe Scheuerle purchased from him in 1911.


White Powder photographed by Joe Scheuerle in the early 1900's. This is almost certainly the same as that shown in Figure 7. It is embellished with plaited quillwork.




Black Bird, a Northern Cheyenne, 1911. He appears to be wearing the White Powder shirt.


Goes Ahead, the famous Crow scout for Custer, who seems to wearing the White Powder shirt. Crow Agency 1911.


The Gros Ventre No Bear. He is wearing a quilled shirt similar to that in the previous Figure but is heavily fringed with hair.