Early in his career, Arthur Roy Mitchell received sound financial advice from fellow painter Harvey Dunn: “When they ask you what a picture is for,” Dunn said, “tell them, ‘for sale.’”
Mitchell’s oil-on-canvas Western scenes were museum-quality, and that’s where they now reside: in the museum that bears his name in Mitchell’s hometown of Trinidad, Colorado, just 11 miles north of the New Mexico state, , and . From the 1920s through the 1940s, Mitchell’s illustrations appeared on more than 160 covers. Readers perusing the newsstands would often find his vivid, colorful images appearing side-by-side on different publications.
