Southwestern Gallery | Texas Gallery | H.D. Bugbee Gallery | Frank Reaugh Gallery
One gallery is dedicated to a rotation of the museum’s collection of 1000 works by Harold D. Bugbee (1900-1963) and his wife Olive Vandruff (1908-2003), including a reconstruction of Bugbee's studio. H.D. Bugbee came from Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1914 with his parents, and graduated in two years from the four-year Cumming School of Art in Des Moines, Iowa. In the mid 1920s, Bugbee exhibited in galleries in Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. However, when sales were few during the depression, he began illustrating for magazines like Western Stories, Country Gentleman, and Field and Stream, and Western history books such as J. Evetts Haley’s Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman. In 1951, Bugbee became curator of art at PPHM and gave 200 of his works to the collection as well as five murals in PPHM’s Pioneer Hall. Olive Vandruff was a successful wildlife painter in Kerrville when she married Bugbee in 1961 and succeeded him as PPHM curator of art.
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