Artist Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the Brooklyn Friends School; however, Ogden Minton Pleissner spent his two summers at a boys camp in Dubois, Wyoming and a third summer at a dude ranch. The rugged western scenery captivated him and he captured it in sketches. From 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Art Students League (Manhattan, NYC) with Frank DuMond, George Bridgeman and Frederick J. Boston. He then taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New .