Wolfinbarger, Harold Aubrey, Jr.
Harold Aubrey Wolfinbarger, Jr. (March 4, 1908 - March 1986) was an artist active in Denver, Colorado known for his depictions of Western Americana. Wolfinbarger was born in Denver and his father, Harold, Sr., was an amateur artist who made oil paintings of Colorado landscapes. Harold, Jr., showed artistic skill from a young age and won a national cartoon contest while attending South High School in Denver. He then attended Denver University and spent his summers working as a ranch hand and cowboy, helping inform his later artistic output. After completing college, Wolfinbarger worked for a year and a half as an apprentice to a commercial artist but soon found that he could support himself as a freelance illustrator, which he did for the remainder of his career. Aside from his commercial art output, Wolfinbarger undertook a period of advanced study under Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City. He saw success as both an illustrator, primarily of books (as with the popular 1961 Ann Miller book Matadors of Mexico), and as a painter. Most of his works in either format dealt with the American West and Mexico, both the landscapes and the people who inhabited them. Wolfinbarger was a long-time member of the Denver Artist Guild and led the organization in 1957-1958.
Whimsical Map of Wartime Denver.
Delightful Denver The Friendly City in the Sky.
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This is a whimsical c. 1943 pictorial map of Denver, Colorado, by artist Harold Wolfinbarger. It presents the city during World War II, when Denver, like other Western cities with military facilities, experienced a population boom. (more details)