28 Facts About AR Mitchell

AR Mitchell designed the centenial emblem for Colorado and for the anniversary of the 1859 Colorado gold rush, he created the "Rush to the Rockies" emblem.

AR Mitchell helped establish both the Baca House and Bloom Mansion as historic sites and are now both parts of the Trinidad History Museum.

AR Mitchell held was the curator and was the historian of the Trinidad Historic District until 1975.

In 1962, AR Mitchell received the community's Outstanding Service Award for his contributions to the museums.

AR Mitchell had two sisters, Hattie and Ethel "Tot" Mitchell-Erickson.

AR Mitchell was the middle child between Hattie and Tot.

AR Mitchell went to New Mexico Territory to work as a ranch hand in 1907.

AR Mitchell worked for the Adams Cattle Company at the Vermejo Park Ranch.

AR Mitchell worked as an artist and drew politcal cartoons for newspapers.

AR Mitchell sold advertising for a Walla Walla, Washington newspaper.

AR Mitchell served during World War I, having enlisted on March 1918 in Walla Walla, Washington.

AR Mitchell was a member of the 166th Depot Brigade of the Regular Army National Guard Enlisted Reserve Corps Regiment.

AR Mitchell was discharged on November 30,1918, after the end of the war.

In 1927, Dunn decided to move his classes to his personal studio in Leonia, New Jersey and AR Mitchell followed him there.

In 1927, AR Mitchell sold the first of his paintings to publishers for use as covers for the western pulp magazines Northwest Stories and Cowboy Stories.

AR Mitchell's paintings were used on covers of Wild West Weekly, All Western, and Popular Western.

In 1935, AR Mitchell started creating artwork for book covers, including that of The Spur of Time, The End of Black Jack, and The Spider Web Trail for the publishing house Houghton Mifflin Company.

AR Mitchell collected items that a cowboy would use, like saddles, camp coffee pots, Indian blankets, and pottery for his works of art.

AR Mitchell depicted the lives of cowboys, cowgirls, and Native Americans in the praries and plains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.

AR Mitchell's portrayed battles of Native Americans, people traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, with images of notable western men like Kit Carson and Billy the Kid.

AR Mitchell produced numerous landscape paintings, often pulling the car over while driving to paint en plein air.

AR Mitchell continued painting while there, with many of the paintings depicting the surrounding area of Stonewall Gap.

AR Mitchell designed the centennial emblem for Colorado and for the anniversary of the 1859 Colorado gold rush, he created the "Rush to the Rockies" emblem.

AR Mitchell taught at Trinidad State Junior College, where he started the first art class in 1945 and continued to teach there in 1958.

AR Mitchell helped establish both the Baca House and Bloom Mansion as historic sites and are now both parts of the Trinidad History Museum.

AR Mitchell held that position and was the historian of the Trinidad Historic District until 1975.

Some of AR Mitchell's works are among the Baca House collection.

AR Mitchell is buried at the Masonic Cemetery in Trinidad, Colorado.