harold dow bugbee was an american western artist, illustrator, painter, and curator of the panhandle-plains historical museum in canyon, texas. bugbee sought with considerable success to become the dominant artist of the texas south plains, as his role model, charles m. russell of montana, accordingly sketched life of the northern great plains.bugbee was born in lexington, massachusetts, to charles h. bugbee and the former grace l. dow. in 1914, the family moved to the texas panhandle at the suggestion of a cousin, cattleman t.s. bugbee, and established a ranch near clarendon, the seat of don…