Connie had been ill for several months before he passed away in Whitehall on Tuesday, July 28, 1962. In his obituary, it is mentioned there were approximately 225 pieces of known artwork done by him and all that pertains to life in the West.
He most certainly did paint. And paint. It didn’t much matter to him what he painted on, either. Shingles, bits of board, actual canvas (if he could afford it), ceiling material and, as reported in a previous article, even plaster cut from a playroom wall in the Montana Training School.
The depictions of some of the events in his works have raised eyebrows in recent years due to the subject matter, but for Connie, he was simply painting the West as he had known it since his birth in 1883.
