Michael Grauer is the associate director for curatorial affairs/curator of art of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, USA which holds the largest public collection of Reaugh’s works. His articles on Reaugh have appeared in the American Art Review,The Pastel Journal, and Windows on the West: The Art of Frank Reaugh.
"Leave it to Michael Grauer, the spirited over-seer of all things
Reaugh at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, to develop the
definitive biography of this Master Texas artist. With passion and
poignancy, Grauer lays out the compelling story of a forgotten
giant of Texas art. Skillfully charting the ebb and flow of a long
and devoted career, Grauer reasserts Reaugh's rightful place in the
annals of the Lone Star art."--William Reaves, founder of the
Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art
"In this long awaited biography on an important pioneer Texas
artist, Grauer takes on the mantel of personal field guide leading
the reader along dusty far-flung trails taken by Frank Reaugh and
his loyal student following during annual sketching expeditions.
Peppered with colorful facts as layered and richly detailed as his
subject's pastel landscapes, Grauer aptly paints the story of
Reaugh's long life and career, noting his many cultural
contributions to art of the American West, particularly in the
Dallas/Fort Worth region."--Peter F. Mears, Curator, Harry Ransom
Center, University of Texas at Austin
"Writing with insight and authority, art historian and curator
Michael Grauer offers the first truly comprehensive treatment of
artist Frank Reaugh's colorful life and legacy. This ample study
will be both the starting point and the measure of future inquiries
into the subject."--B. Byron Price, Director, Charles M. Russell
Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of
Oklahoma
"Michael Grauer's full-length and superbly researched biography of
Reaugh is compellingly narrated with compassion for the subject
matter and for the culture of the times. The book takes us from
Reaugh's early work on the cattle drives of the 1880s to the
artist's peak at the turn of the century and the national acclaim
that followed. Best of all, Grauer's 'research led journey' to
Western sites and collections put him inside Reaugh's life; Grauer
walked in his subject's footsteps. As a result, this welcome work
tells the story from the inside of the artist's life and lets
Reaugh, as much as any biography can, speak for himself. Grauer's
book constitutes an invaluable contribution to Reaugh studies as
well as to scholarship on art of the American West."--Bonney
MacDonald, Professor of English and Western American Literature at
West Texas A&M University and series editor of American Wests
(Texas A&M University Press)
"Collectors, gallery owners, museum professionals, art historians,
and critics interested in early Texas art will welcome this new
volume."--Journal of Southern History
"The arc of Reaugh's life is so compellingly told, his successes
and accomplishments so well delineated, that the reader comes away
better understanding the author's early declarations that he was 'a
genius'; that he was 'Texas's Leonardo [da Vinci]' . . . . The book
is the definitive biography of Reaugh."--Southwestern Historical
Quarterly
"Michael R. Grauer wisely situates Reaugh's work within the
histories of American landscape painting and nineteenth-century
literature. . . . Rounded Up in Glory will be essential reading for
anyone interested in Reaugh's work and, more broadly, in
strengthening the fragile bridge between the study of
nineteenth-century eastern landscape paintings and the
often-overlooked but deeply inspiring art of the American
West."--H-Environment/H-Net Reviews
"This book belongs in the bookcase of every collector of early
Texas art and also in those of art devotees who want to experience
the journey that Reaugh took from Terrell, Texas, to Europe to West
Texas and back home again."--Legacies
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