Old Vintage Large Uncle Ed's Postcard #ED236 art by Rufus Zogbaum for Sale

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Old Vintage Large Uncle Ed's Postcard #ED236 art by Rufus Zogbaum For Sale

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Old Vintage Large Uncle Ed's Postcard #ED236 art by Rufus Zogbaum:
$37.00

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This is an old vintage collectible historical Memorabilia Large / Big / Jumbo / Oversized Postcard

Zogbaum was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was educated at the Art Students League in New York City from 1878–1879, and during 1880–1882 studied under Léon Bonnat in Paris.

Harper's Weekly normally hired freelance illustrators; nevertheless, for a time Zogbaum was on the magazine's art staff and was sometimes given the assignment to redraw submissions by freelance illustrators. In the 19th-century news magazine world, redrawing illustrations was the equivalent of editing writers’ works. Two of the most famous artists who made illustrations for Harper’s were Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, whose first few illustrations for Harper’s were redrawn by staff artists, including Zogbaum. Zogbaum and Rockwell both lived and worked in New Rochelle, New York, a well-known art colony especially popular among illustrators of the early twentieth century.

Genuine Uncle Ed's Original Old Time Picture Postcards This is a vintage item and may have a little wear, but overall a neat collectible around 7 1/2" by 5 1/4" not postmarked! refer to photos. email with any questions

The first cowboy Christmas card was created by the famous Montana artist, Charles M. Russell, one hundred years ago. Fifty years later, Robert R. Lorenz, a student at Colorado A&M University, began to sell his own cowboy Christmas designs at the local bookstores in Fort Collins, Colorado, delivering a few boxes at a time on his bicycle.

In 1949, Trumble met Lorenz and the two young war veterans enjoyed an instant friendship. Trumble, an employee of Western Live Stock magazine in Denver, had been reared on a cattle-feeding farm in Nebraska and shared Lorenz's consuming interest in the cowboy West. With a handshake, they formed a partnership that was to last fifteen years and called it "The Lazy RL Ranch." Lorenze designed four Christmas cards and Trumble marketed them through a small mail-order ad in the magazine's October issue, immediately resulting in surprising sums of cash orders.

Over the years, while traveling about the West in search of new paintings to publish, Trumble became acquainted with virtually every western artists of the day and developed a passionate interest in collecting their work. His partner Lorenz died in 1965, his lifetime dream of having his real Wyoming ranch unfulfilled. Trumble continued on with his own greeting card enterprise, renaming it "Leanin' Tree," and the company embarked on a long period of growth. All the while the young entrepreneur was building and refining an impressive collection of post-1950 fine art of the American West.

In 1974, Trumble opened a small public art exhibit area as part of a new company plant. Twenty-five years later, the Leanin' Tree Museum had expanded to display 250 major paintings and 150 important bronze sculptures.

Leanin’ Tree founder Edward P. Trumble dies at age 94

Ed Trumble, longtime owner and Chairman of Leanin’ Tree, Inc. and founder of the Leanin’ Tree Museum and Sculpture Garden, died in Longmont, Colorado on Wednesday, December 26th 2018.

A resident of Boulder, he was 94.

Edward Patrick “Ed” Trumble, born Nov. 1, 1924, in Havelock, Nebraska made his mark on Boulder County and far beyond, both as a highly successful entrepreneur and also as a curator and aficionado of western art.

Trumble started his business, originally called Lazy RL Ranch, with artist and partner Robert Lorenz in 1949. Their four Christmas cards sold out immediately.

The company was renamed after Lorenz died in 1965, at which point Trumble bought out his late partner’s share of the business. He opted for the logo of a spruce tree, symbolic of the Christmas season, which he saw as a card maker’s busiest time. He chose to make the tree lean in honor of his home state, Nebraska, he said, because “the wind blew all the time.”

For Trumble, Leanin’ Tree was actually his second brush with the greeting card industry. Following his graduation from the University of Nebraska, he was offered and accepted a position at Hallmark in Kansas City. However, after a visit to Denver and the surrounding Rocky Mountains, he declined that opportunity even before he started.

After operating briefly in Fort Collins, Leanin’ Tree bought its Boulder facility in 1974, and all of its cards are still manufactured there today. The company works with about 700 independent artists to annually produce more than 6,000 cards and gift products. Today, the company is managed by the 2ndgeneration of Trumble family members, although Ed enjoyed visiting the office several afternoons a week to visit with family and long-term employees.

The Greeting Card Association presented Trumble with its Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2016, recognizing his unique contributions to the industry and the artists it supports.

Trumble found that the many years of finding art for his western-themed greeting cards connected him to many of the finest western art galleries, and he would become a big supporter and friend of many artists and gallery owners. He acquired and curated fine art for his Leanin’ Tree Museum and Sculpture Garden for more than 40 years.

His family considers his greatest publishing achievement to be his 500-page coffee- table book, “The Story of Leanin’ Tree: Art and Enterprise in the American West,” published in 2008.