Arthur Roy Mitchell (1889-1977) painted iconic western scenes featuring cowboys, horses, cattle and vast beautiful landscapes that captured the hearts and minds of pulp western readers from the 1930's to today. Known as the "King of the Pulp Western Illustrators", the largest collection of his work is proudly displayed at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, in downtown Trinidad, Colorado. The establishment of the museum came about following the artist’s death in 1977 when Ethel Mitchell Erickson or “Tot” A.R. Mitchell's sister, felt a sentimental pull toward returning his entire collection to Trinidad where she and her brother were born and raised. More than 350 paintings and illustrations by Mitchell are displayed at the museum, along with works by other nationally recognized artists like Harold Von Schmidt and Harvey Dunn.
