Charles Henry Reynolds was a leading Oklahoma-born landscape painter of the mid-twentieth-century Southwest, an artist who came to painting late, by way of the corporate professions, and built a substantial second career within the orbit of the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies.
Charles Henry Reynolds (1902–1963) was an American painter of the American Southwest, born in Kiowa, in what was then Indian Territory and is now Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa and began painting on his own in 1925, pursuing the practice alongside a career in corporate accounting and clerical work for the next two decades. His formal art training amounted to brief periods of study in Chicago and Paris; the rest he taught himself, working closely from the example of the older Taos painters whose work first drew him to New Mexico.
His subjects were the realist landscapes, pueblos, and figures of the Southwest, painted in oil and watercolor. He exhibited widely across Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona during the 1940s and 1950s, and his work entered the collections of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, and the University of New Mexico, among others.