Charles Schreyvogel

He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Paul and Theresa Schreyvogel,[1] and grew up in a poor family of German immigrant shopkeepers on the Lower East Side of New York.

When Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show came to Brooklyn in 1894, Schreyvogel visited to sketch.

[2] He went on to become famous for his depictions of the American West, although he did much of his work in his studio (or its rooftop) in decidedly non-Western Hoboken.

[3] In 1901, his painting My Bunkie was awarded the Thomas Clarke Prize at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design.

He died in Hoboken in 1912 and is buried in Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen, New Jersey.