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the haunted beach : 9-9-66 [#272]  

size: w/out frame: 23 1/2" L X 18" W

 This information sheet came with the 2 paintings. On page 292 in: Who was Who In American Art, 1985 it lists: Hornaday,J.K.[P] Kansas City, MO[24] A family member that found this web site also agreed and verified with me that it looks like a simple typo. Jesse R. Hornaday, Born 1893, attended schools in Southeastern Kansas. His father, county superintendent of school, died when he was 11 years old. He ran away from home when he was 14 years old and worked for a time with a scenic artist traveling with a carnival. Later he worked with other carnival and circus groups doing all kinds of show painting. Working winters in theaters, and as a bellboy in hotels, or as cook or waiter in restaurants. Still later, Mr. Hornaday became a sign and pictorial painter throughout the Middle West. In 1917, he and a brother enlisted in the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, where he first became acquainted with a young 2nd Lieutenant, Harry S. Truman. Like hundreds of other soldiers, he was daily associated with the man who was later to become President. After the war, in 1919, he attended the Chicago Art Institute and did free-lance artwork in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee. While in Chicago, he worked for a time as designer with a firm specializing in candy-bar wrappers. Later, he was designing outdoor advertising for the Thos. Cusack Co. which became General Outdoors. About this time, Mr. Hornaday contracted to paint a 500 foot background display for a fireworks show. He became interested in the fireworks and became involved in designing, building and firing displays at parks, fairs and celebrations throughout the Middle West. The Hornadays came to Oregon in 1936. Mr. Hornaday was employed for several years by the Grants Pass DAILY COURIER, as a cartoonist, artist and lithographer. Spending as much time along the Oregon and the Washington Coast, he has painted much of the coastal scenery. He was awarded blue ribbons at the Oregon State Fair in 1954 and again in 1956 for seascapes. Through the years, Mr. Hornaday has had pictures on display throughout the local Grants Pass area, in Eugene and at various places on the Oregon Coast. At the present time, Mr. Hornaday has paintings at Boyko Stationery Store, Grants Pass, Oregon. Mr. Hornaday's artistic talent has brought much pleasure to staff and patients alike at the VA Hospital, Roseburg, Oregon. Many persons carry a personalized, little nameplate that Mr. Hornaday has sketched for them. You can see them sitting here and there on employees; desks around the hospital. Through the winter months this year, Mr. Hornaday has designed for the patients a Library new book list covers for the four seasons of the year. The first cover design is on the SPRING "new book list" available now. Just recently, Mr. Hornaday completed the pen and ink sketch of the Oregon Coast and has donated it to the Patients Library. We are very proud to have it! Thank You. Author and Date unknown. Provenance: Ed Kienstra: Grants Pass, OR 1989 and before, T. Hill. Ashland, OR 1989 to present.

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