Leonard Reedy Art

Leonard Reedy was a landscape and figure painter, born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 24, 1899. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as self-taught. At the age of 10, he demonstrated an unusual aptness and fondness for drawing and painting and chose to manifest this talent by illustrating the margins of his school books with his heroes of the west like Indians, cowpunchers and bandits. Reedy was a great admirer of Frederic Remington whose portrayal of the West and Frontier Days will forever be appreciated and cherished as historically preserving the early pioneering, indomitable spirit and tradition of a great bygone era in American History. Like Remington, Reedy lived in the great open spaces and was at home on the Great Plains, the desert country, mountains, as well as mining and timber camps. He worked as a ranch hand and he roamed with the Indians. Over a period of many years, he gained a bountiful knowledge of western life and of the subjects he loved to portray. No doubt his great love and admiration for the early rough and rugged West of long ago decided for him what to paint. He preserved and described action which showed characters true to their habits and period, all preserved the outstanding incidents of the pioneer days, the hardships and struggles during a most important epoch of our nation's history.