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    Harrelle Trantham  (1900-1992)

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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 15 x 13
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Castle in The Air
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      • Castle in The Air
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 18 x 24
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Stock Pond Seven Wells Historical Water Hole in Pioneer Days Near Colorado City
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      • Stock Pond Seven Wells Historical Water Hole in Pioneer Days Near Colorado City
      • Seven wells colorado city large5
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 11 x 14
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: 15.5 x 19.5
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • East Abilene
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      • East Abilene
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 15.25 x 12.75
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: 18.75 x 22.7
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Brilliant Hills Beyond The Valley
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      • Brilliant Hills Beyond The Valley
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 11 x 14
      • Frame: 17.5 x 20.5
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Kittens in the Moonlight
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      • Kittens in the Moonlight
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 8 x 10
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Walking on Air
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      • Walking on Air
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 15
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Mountain Goat Ranch
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      • Mountain Goat Ranch
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Crains-Cedar Creek
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      • Crains-Cedar Creek
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 12
      • Frame: 17 x 17
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • "Texas Sky West of Caps"
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      • "Texas Sky West of Caps"
      • Small2
      • Small3
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 16 x 20
      • Frame: 20 x 24
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Tumbleweeds
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      • Tumbleweeds
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 8 x 10
      • Frame: 16.5 x 18.25
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Buffalo Gap Creek
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      • Buffalo Gap Creek
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 14 x 17
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 13 x 14
      • Frame: 17.5 x 19
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • "Seven Wells" Historical water hole in pioneer cattle drive days. Near Colorado City
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      • "Seven Wells" Historical water hole in pioneer cattle drive days. Near Colorado City
      • Seven wells colorado city3
      • Seven wells colorado city1
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x14
      • Frame: Unframed
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 18 x 24
      • Frame: 24 x 29.5
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Sketching Class
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      • Sketching Class
      • Sketchingtrip3
      • Sketchingtrip4
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 18 x 24
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
      • Stock Pond
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      • Stock Pond
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 16 x 20
      • Frame: UnFramed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Circa 1930s
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      • Harrelle Trantham
      • (1900-1992)
      • Abilene Artist
      • Size: 12 x 16
      • Frame: Unframed
      • Medium: Oil on Masonite
      • Cedar Hills
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      • Cedar Hills
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  • Biography

    Harrelle Trantham (1900-1992) Abilene Artist

    Harrelle
    Trantham (1900-1992)


    Abilene
    Artist

    Landscape
    Artist, graphic artist, sign painter.

    Born in
    Caps and attended school in Abilene.  He
    was mostly a self taught artist.  He also
    studied with Frank Klepper.

    After a
    period in Fresno California, he returned to Abilene in 1929 where he worked as
    a sign painter for Dr. Pepper Bottling co.

    In 1948
    he began working at Harding Simmons University, Abilene, as maintenance painter,
    retiring in 1965.

    He
    served as a member of the board of directors of the Texas Fine Arts Association
    before his death in Abilene.

    Trantham’s
    wife was Ruth Newberry Robins Trantham. (Also an Artist)

    Exhibitions

    Annual
    Fort Worth Worth Local Artists show (1939)

    Texas
    Fine Arts Association (1940-46)
      

     
    Annual Exhibition of West Texas Artists, Fort
    Worth Museum of Art (1940 prize)
     
    Texas-Oklahoma
    General Exhibition (1941)
        
    Seven States Art League Annual Exhibition
    (1941, 1945-46)


    Texas
    General Exhibition (1941-46)

    Annual
    Texas print exhibition, Dallas (1943)

    International Print exhibition, Elizabet Ney
    Museum Austin (1943)


    Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition 1943
    Honorable Mention, 1945, 1946 Honorable Mention, (1947)


    All West Texas Exhibition Abilene Museum of
    fine Arts (1946)

    Corpus Christi Caller Times Annual Exhibition
    (1946)


    Kansas City Missouri Art institute.



    Collections  

    Modern Art
    Museum of Fort Worth.


    Affiliations  

    Abilene
    Creative art Club

    Southern
    States Art League

    Texas
    Fine Arts association

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