Archie Musick

Archie Leroy Musick (born January 19, 1902 in Kirksville, Missouri, the son of Levi Prince Musick and Zada Goeghegan — died April 1978 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American painter. He studied under Thomas Hart Benton, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, and Boardman Robinson.

His first major mural (5”x14”) was sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project and may be seen at Colorado Springs, Colorado, where for many years he was the art instructor at the Cheyenne Mountain School. Musick’s work can be seen as well in the Red Cloud, Nebraska Post Office [http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/colette/muralsSIG/RedCloudPage.html] , the Manitou Springs, Colorado post office, and also at his alma mater, Truman State University (B.Sc; then Northeast Missouri State Teachers’ College). He was commissioned by the class of 1928 to paint the snow-covered ruins of Old Baldwin Hall, destroyed in a 1924 fire. He described his first two mural commissions as "scenic pot-boilers on restaurant walls, (which) were happily destroyed by fire." He spent most of his career in Colorado, with a year (1946-7) teaching at the University of Missouriand several years after that teaching at another Missouri university..His book, Musick Medley: Intimate Memories of a Rocky Mountain Art Colony, is a personal view of the art world of the Colorado SPrings region from the 1920s to the 1950s, including the Broadmoor Art Academy and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

He was the brother of author and folklorist Ruth Ann Musick, and illustrated her collections Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales, Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe, and The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales.

He married Irene Kolodziej, who was head of the ceramics department at the University of Missouri at Columbia, in 1947, and had children Patricia Ruth Musick and Daniel Barrett Musick. After Irene's death, he married Jane Wyeth Knight.

ources

*Who Was Who in American Art. Compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of American Art Annual: Who's Who in Art, Biographies of American Artists Active from 1898-1947. Edited by Peter Hastings Falk. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1985. (WhAmArt 1)

External links

“Chores on Pike’s Peak” [http://a-r-t.com/wpa/pages/Musick%20,%20Archie%20-%20Chores%20On%20Pikes%20Peak.htm]

Writing

*Oil Painting for Beginners (1930)
*Jigger Flies First (juvenile; 1957)
*Transplanting Culture. Magazine of Art March, 1937
*Musick Medley: Intimate Memories of a Rocky Mountain Art Colony Colorado Springs: Jane and Archie Musick 1971.