Biografie von Rufus Fairchild ZOGBAUM (1849-1925)

Birth place: Charleston, SC

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC; Highland Falls, NY, 1889

Profession: Naval painter, illustrator

Studied: Univ. Heidelberg; ASL, 1878-79; Paris, with Bonn‚t, 1880-82

Exhibited: Brooklyn, AA, 1877, 1884; PAFA Ann., 1879, 1883; Boston AC, 1888, 1893, 1902; NAD, 1889; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Brooklyn AA; Avery Gal., NYC, 1889; AIC

Member: AWCS; Century Assn.

Work: murals: State Capitol, St. Paul, MN; Federal Bldg., Cleveland, OH; Woolworth Bldg., NYC; portraits, Naval War College, Newport; Williams College, Williamstown, MA; Flower Hospital, NY.

Comments: Zogbaum was a popular illustrator who specialized in depicting idealized army life and life in the West, including cowboys, cattle drives, stagecoaches, and river boats. In 1882-83, he visited England, and in 1883, went to Germany. In 1884, he was in Montana, sketching military life on the frontier. He also toured Oklahoma in 1888, preparing sketches for a series that appeared in Harper's Weekly and in books such as Horse, Foot and Dragoons, Ships and Sailors, and All Hands. In the 1890s, he concentrated on naval and military subjects, and was a leading artist-correspondent during the Spanish-American War in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico and Cuba. He was author-illustrator of "War and the Artist," Scribner"s, 1915.

Sources: WW24; P&H Samuels, 548.