H. H. GREEN WATERCOLOR 1920 TAOS NEW MEXICO, PONIES WATERING. 1920, Henry Hiram Green (1865 - 1930, America), Watercolor and chalk on tan paper, depicting two horses drinking from a river with the mountains in the background, signed 'H.H. GREEN TOAS NM. PONIES WATERING 1920,' 8.875"h x 11.875"l. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Paris, New York, Hiram Harold Green was a painter, illustrator and etcher, especially noted for birds-eye views of Niagara Falls for the Buffalo, New York newspapers, and for Liberty Loan patriotic posters for the U.S. government during World War I. Other specialties were pictorial maps and commissions for the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads. For the Santa Fe Railroad he did paintings that include The Apache Trail and The Grand Canyon. As a young man, he began art studies in Buffalo where in 1898, he received an award for excellence from the Albright Art Academy. He continued in New York City at the Art Students League with Henry Siddons Mowbroy, Kenyon Cox and Frederic Bridgman. Around 1905, he settled in Fort Erie, Ontario, where he began his work for the Buffalo newspapers and also for commercial art companies. He traveled extensively across the country on his assignments, and making so many trips between Buffalo and Fort Erie, he was an early champion of a bridge connecting the towns. Sources include: Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art. Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Bio courtesy of: http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Hiram_Harold_Green/3490/Hiram_Harold_Green.aspx