Western and Wildlife Art, including Contemporary Native American Art

Provenance:

Private Collection, West Virginia.

By descent form the above to the present owner.

Literature:

H. McCracken, Great Painters and Illustrators of the Old West, New York, 1952, p. 202. 

E. Ainsworth, The Cowboy in Art, New York, 1968, pp. 48-49, another example illustrated.

J.D. Horan, The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian of the Indian-Fighting Army of the American West, New York, 1969, pp. 27, 59, pl. 39, another example illustrated. 

P. Rossi, D. Hunt, The Art of the Old West from the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute, New York, 1971, pp. 230-1, another example illustrated.

P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 203-5, pls. 205-6, another example illustrated. 

W.C. Foxley, Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, exhibition catalogue, Denver, Colorado, 1983, pp. 110, 200, no. 76, another example illustrated

Birmingham Museum of Art, Art of the American West, Birmingham, Alabama, 1983, pp. 30-1, another example illustrated. 

G.A. Reynolds, American Bronze Sculpture: 1850 to the Present, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, p. 23, another example illustrated.

S. Campbell, The American West: People, Places, and Ideas, Corning, New York, 2001, pp. 96, 157, pl. 62, another example illustrated. 

L.D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, New York, 2002, p. 138, another example illustrated. 

T. Tolles, The American West in Bronze: 1850-1925, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 116-17, 120-22, 164, 173, 185, 191, fig. 146, 153, no. 70, 71, other examples illustrated. 

Overall dimensions: 12 x 18 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.

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