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Biography
Paul Dyck (1917 – 2006) Born in Chicago, Paul Dyck became a painter of western subjects, illustrator, and author. His preferred medium was egg tempera with "old master" oil glazes, and he also painted in watercolor and Sumiye ink with Japanese brushes. He was a descendent of the Flemish painter, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). As a small child, Dyck lived in Calgary, western Canada among the Blackfeet, Crow, and Cheyenne Indians where his parents were pioneers. Later he lectured on American Indian culture and became a collector of Indian artifacts. He was given the name "Rainbow Hand" by members of the Sioux Indian tribe with whom he lived in 1934. He also became the adopted son of two Indian leaders: One Elk and Lone Wolf, the Blackfoot artist. At the age of eight, Dyck was taken by his parents to Europe and apprenticed to an artist uncle, a painter, with studios in Florence, Paris, Prague, and Rome. By age fifteen, he was on his own, studying at the Munich Academy with Johann von Skramlik and exhibiting his collection of Indian artifacts. He served in World War II as a Navy artist and then settled in Rimrock, northern Arizona, where he had first visited in 1938. He became a rancher while pursuing his art that included a series called "Indians of the Overland Trail." He also wrote a book titled "Brule, the Sioux People of the Rosebud." From his ranch in Northern Arizona's Verde Valley where lived and worked with his art and with the land, Paul Dyck produced his first edition of original lithographs; illustrating vigor and eloquence with which he has expressed his mature vision in this new medium. He died in March of 2006, in Oak Creek near Sedona, Arizona. Source: Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West Old West Show and Auction catalogue, June 24, 2004
Paul Dyck
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