Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
R.H. Palenske
Reinhold H. or R. H. Palenske was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a graphic artist and painter. His work is in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Royal Gallery of London, England. During his career his work was reproduced in The Spur, the Washington Star and the Chicago Daily News.
Palenske studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a student of W. Reynolds. For many years, Brown and Bigelow had Palenske's work on an exclusive basis in the advertising specialty market, and they also offered a number of his original etchings.Palenske's love of animals and nature was almost
inborn, for both his father and grandfather were cavalry officers whose love of horses is traditional. In addition to being a master etcher, he was a sportsman and hunter of prominence. Among other activities he, with J. M. Gibbon of Montreal and Carl Rungius, founded the "Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies," which originated on Wolverine Pass, British Columbia.
Biographical information from a private source.
R.H. Palenske with Indians at Wolverine Pass, 1924.
Photo Courtesy of Anne Sturm, grand-daughter of Palenske
