Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 9:00 AM Mountain

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Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

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Davis Brothers Auction is proud to present Day 2 of our landmark summer event, Silence of the Prairie-a sweeping exhibition of rare Western fine art, historic photography, and investment-grade artifacts drawn from private collections and long-held estates across America.

Featured Artists:

Olaf Wieghorst, William Penhallow Henderson, Les Thomas, George Phippen, Granville Redmond, William Seltzer Rice, David Mayer, William Standing, Raphael Lillywhite, Maynard Dixon, Maurice Braun, Loren Entz, Clark Hulings, Frederic Remington, Carl Von Hassler, Walt Gonske, John Bye, Hans Kleiber, David Mann, Bill Anton, Don Oelze, Edward Borein, Harold Von Schmidt, Charles Russell, John Nieto, Edgar Alwin Payne, Clyde Aspevig.

Auction Highlights:

Hyatt & Tankersley Alamosa Belt Handcuffs, historic Standing Rock Reservation photographs and archive, Native American Beadwork, Colonel AE Stewart Trophy Room Photos, Edward Curtis orotones and photogravures, African tribal antiques, Acoma Pueblo pottery and so many more hidden treasures.

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Olaf Wieghorst Indian & Horse Watercolor Painting

Lot # 501 (Sale Order: 501 of 1017)

Title is Indian Sitting in Front of White Horse. 8" by 10" unframed. 20" by 22" framed. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. Provenance: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexi...moreco. 2003 Private Collection, Hawaii Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) was active/lived in California / Denmark. Olaf Wieghorst is known for Western-Indian-genre, horses. Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons"). He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel. In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion. He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.

William Hook Clarks View Acrylic Painting

Lot # 502 (Sale Order: 502 of 1017)

Title is Clark's View. 20" by 20" unframed. 27 1/2" by 27 1/2" framed. Acrylic on Canvas. Provenance: The Taos Gallery. Taos, New Mexico William Cather Hook (Born 1948) i...mores active/lives in New Mexico, California, Kansas, Missouri. William Hook is known for Southwest landscape painting, illustration. The American landscape is William Hook's inspiration. Large skies, low horizons, distant mountains and textured foregrounds are expressed in his paintings with broad brushstrokes of vivid color. The magazines Southwest Art, Art of the West, U.S. Art, American Artist, and Focus Santa Fe have featured Hook's work in cover articles, and the book, Leading the West by Donald Hagerty, references William Hook as one of the notable influences on the western art scene. In addition, publishers Harper-Collins and North Light have included his work in numerous books written about the contemporary art process in Europe and America. William Hook's background in art began at home. It was through the influence of his father and grandmother, a professional photographer and architect respectively, that art became second nature to him. Other family members were art historian Bainbridge Bunting, prominent Italian painters Gino and Bertha Venanzi, as well as Pulitzer Prize winning author, Willa Cather. When the discussion of art arose at the Hook household, there was never a lack of opinions and interests. "I was always encouraged to try new media, and that is one reason why I still paint in acrylic. My grandmother would find materials in art stores or would have read about a newly developed medium and I would be the art guinea pig". After having attended classes at the Kansas City Art Institute, Hook left his hometown of Kansas City to continue his study of fine art at the University of New Mexico. Hook went on to complete his formal education at the Universita Per Straniere (Perugia, Italy) and the Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles, CA). It was his time spent in New Mexico, where the scenery made an indelible impression on the aspiring artist, that led him to return to make it his home and frequent subject. "I have painted all over the United States and Europe and continue to find New Mexico at the center of my work". Mr. Hook's paintings can be found in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum, the University of New Mexico, the FORBES Museum, NYC, and the Genesee Museum, NY. In addition, Hook's work is featured in prints for the New Mexico Symphony, Music from Angel Fire, and the Santa Fe Opera.

William Penhallow Henderson Rooster Pull Pastel

Lot # 503 (Sale Order: 503 of 1017)

Title is Rooster Pull Arizona 1904. 8 1/2" by 11" unframed. 20 1/2" by 23" framed. Pastel on Paper. Provenance: The Artist's Estate Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New M...moreexico Private Collection, Florida Exhibited: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, William Penhallow Henderson: Master Colorist of Santa Fe, September 29 - November 18, 1984 Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado, William Penhallow Henderson: Master Colorist of Santa Fe, February 22 - April 9, 1985 William Penhallow Henderson (1877 - 1943) was active/lived in New Mexico, Kansas. William Henderson is known for Modernist Indian, genre and landscape painting, woodworking. Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings. He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in 1891. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Edmund Tarbell and won a Paige Traveling Scholarship that allowed him to travel and study in Europe for three years beginning 1901. There he was greatly influenced by the styles of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir and Whistler. He then taught in Chicago at the Academy of Fine Arts, painted murals in the Chicago public schools, and designed scenery and costumes for the Chicago Fine Arts Theatre. He married poet Alice Corbin, and the two collaborated on children's books with him doing the illustrations. In 1916, having spent several summers in the Southwest, the couple moved to Santa Fe where he became an active mural painter, architectural and furniture designer, using Indian and Hispanic images. His studio was on the Camino de Monte Sol, and in 1923, he was one of the founders of the New Mexico Painters Society. He also painted in Arizona. His 1904 painting, Hopi Kachina Dance, is the earliest extant Arizona work, and from 1916, he painted many Indian ceremonies in Arizona as well as New Mexico. Walpi Snake Dance is dated 1920, and in style is described as being "emotive rather than anthropological, drawing on the influence of French Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and the Nabi painters of the 1890s." (138) As owner of the Pueblo-Spanish Building Company in Santa Fe, he designed Sena Plaza and the Wheelright Museum, then called the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, which won an award in 1938 from the Architectural League of New York. In the entrance he sculpted a mural of a corn plant.

William Penhallow Henderson New Mexico Pastel

Lot # 504 (Sale Order: 504 of 1017)

Title is New Mexico Adobe. 3 1/4" by 4 1/2" unframed. 10 3/4" by 12 3/4" framed. Pastel on Paper. Provenance: The Artist's Estate Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mex...moreico. Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private Collection, Florida. William Penhallow Henderson (1877 - 1943) was active/lived in New Mexico, Kansas. William Henderson is known for Modernist Indian, genre and landscape painting, woodworking. Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings. He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in 1891. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Edmund Tarbell and won a Paige Traveling Scholarship that allowed him to travel and study in Europe for three years beginning 1901. There he was greatly influenced by the styles of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir and Whistler. He then taught in Chicago at the Academy of Fine Arts, painted murals in the Chicago public schools, and designed scenery and costumes for the Chicago Fine Arts Theatre. He married poet Alice Corbin, and the two collaborated on children's books with him doing the illustrations. In 1916, having spent several summers in the Southwest, the couple moved to Santa Fe where he became an active mural painter, architectural and furniture designer, using Indian and Hispanic images. His studio was on the Camino de Monte Sol, and in 1923, he was one of the founders of the New Mexico Painters Society. He also painted in Arizona. His 1904 painting, Hopi Kachina Dance, is the earliest extant Arizona work, and from 1916, he painted many Indian ceremonies in Arizona as well as New Mexico. Walpi Snake Dance is dated 1920, and in style is described as being "emotive rather than anthropological, drawing on the influence of French Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and the Nabi painters of the 1890s." (138) As owner of the Pueblo-Spanish Building Company in Santa Fe, he designed Sena Plaza and the Wheelright Museum, then called the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, which won an award in 1938 from the Architectural League of New York. In the entrance he sculpted a mural of a corn plant.

Kristi Hager First Days Oil Painting

Lot # 505 (Sale Order: 505 of 1017)

Title is First Days. 5 1/2" by 6" unframed. 6 1/2" by 7" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: The Estate of Kristi Hager Kristi Hager (January 22, 1946 - November 12, 2024) ...more

Kristi Hager First Days Encounter Oil Painting

Lot # 506 (Sale Order: 506 of 1017)

Title is First Days Encounter. 5 1/2" by 7" unframed. 6 1/2" by 7 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: The Estate of Kristi Hager Kristi Hager (January 22, 1946 - Novem...more

Walter Bambrook New Mexico Cabezon Peak Painting

Lot # 507 (Sale Order: 507 of 1017)

Title is Cabezon Peak New Mexico. 9" by 12" unframed. 12" by 15" framed. Oil on Board. Walter Bambrook (1910 - 1984) was active/lived in New Mexico. Walter Bambrook is kn...more

Gordon Cook Hawaiian Dreams Watercolor Painting

Lot # 508 (Sale Order: 508 of 1017)

Title is Hawaiian Day Dream. 7" by 10" unframed. 12" by 14 3/4" Gordon Cook (1927 - 1985) was active/lived in California, Illinois. Gordon Cook is known for Ironic real v...more

George Phippen Pride of the Show Painting

Lot # 509 (Sale Order: 509 of 1017)

Title is Pride of the Show. 28" by 40" unframed. 38" by 50" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company Condition: Dime size pun...more

Les Thomas Moose Oil on Canvas Painting

Lot # 510 (Sale Order: 510 of 1017)

Title is Animal Painting #019-1738 Moose. 36" by 36" unframed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming Private Collection, Wyoming Les Thomas (Born 196...more2) is active/lives in Canada. Les Thomas is known for Painting. My intention with each of my animal paintings is to forge some kind of amicable relationship between the patterns and abstract paint application, and a particular animal image. In this sense, the image is not merely a pretext for a painting. It actually provides the impetus for how the entire surface is to be treated. Les Thomas, who was born in British Columbia in 1962, has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity, in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture. Les' education is indicative of his dedication to his chosen profession as an artist. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University College in London, England. After returning to Canada, he attended the University of Calgary, gaining his Master of Fine Arts. Thomas sifts through a wide variety of visual sources for the imagery in his work. The influence of his view of painting as a very noble activity is combined with his acknowledgement that it can be inventive and enjoyable (for both the artist and the viewer). The other major influence is culture, in its broadest terms, including all aspects of our everyday life. Les Thomas' dynamic wax & oil animal paintings allow him to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, Les explains, "may very well pertain to memory, and the manner in which we hold visual experiences within the capacities for recollection. Think of the last time you encountered a bear on the roadside or craned your neck to watch a mountain goat or sheep on a steep and rocky slope." "My intention with each of my animal paintings is to forge some kind of amicable relationship between the patterns and abstract paint application, and a particular animal image. In this sense, the image is not merely a pretext for a painting. It actually provides the impetus for how the entire surface is to be treated." Les Thomas has received many awards for his work, been featured in several publications, and has his paintings in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Germany.

Granville Redmond Catalina Island Painting

Lot # 511 (Sale Order: 511 of 1017)

Title is Catalina Island from Long Beach California. 12" by 20" unframed. 19 1/2" by 27 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935) was active/lived in Cal...moreifornia. Granville Redmond is known for Wild floral landscape and marine painting. One of California's most notable Impressionist* painters and considered the first resident Impressionist of that state, Granville Redmond is known for his landscapes, many of them floral with poppies and lupines. He was also one of the first Tonalist* painters of California, a subdued monochromatic* style of haze, fog and moonlight that reportedly "he was more drawn to". . .(Gerdts 27). Redmond was also a popular personality and held friendships with many celebrities in the arts, despite certain physical handicaps of his own most especially deafness. He was born in Philadelphia with the name Grenville Richard Seymour Redmond. At the age of two and a half, he became totally deaf due to scarlet fever, and lived his whole life without hearing or speech. In 1874, the family moved to San Jose, and from 1879 to 1890, he attended the California School of the Deaf in Berkeley. There his art teacher, Theophilus D'Estrella, who was also deaf, was a major influence, and Redmond decided to continue art studies at the San Francisco School of Design*. His teachers included Arthur Mathews and Amedee Joullion. Redmond distinguished himself, winning the W.E. Brown medal of excellence, and in 1893 was awarded funds from the California School of the Deaf, which made it possible for him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian* under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. At the Academie Julian, he roomed with sculptor Douglas Tilden, another graduate of the California School for the Deaf. While in Paris, Redmond distinguished himself once again, when in 1895 his large canvas, Matin d'Hiver, was accepted for the Paris Salon*. At the California School of Design, he had become acquainted with many other artists including Tonalists* Gottardo Piazzoni, with whom Redmond made several painting trips around California, and Giuseppe Cadenasso, to whom he gave encouragement. Piazzoni learned sign language, and he and Redmond were lifelong friends. They roomed together in Parkfield, California, and also in Tiburon. At that time, it was difficult for artists and would-be artists in San Francisco and in the West to find ways to practice their fine art. Opportunities in commercial illustration were a little brighter, and Redmond and many other artists were drawn to newspapers and local magazines such as the Overland Monthly as sources of revenue. In 1898, he returned to California, changed his first name to Granville, and settled in Los Angeles, where he painted many scenes of Laguna Beach, Catalina Island, and San Pedro. He was married in 1899 to Carrie Ann Jean, a graduate of the Illinois School for the Deaf. Together they had three children. While living in Los Angeles, he became friends with Charlie Chaplin, whom he helped in perfecting his pantomime techniques. Chaplin gave Redmond a studio on the movie lot, collected many of his paintings, and sponsored him in silent acting roles including playing the sculptor in City Lights, and a feature part in You'd Be Surprised. He also got to know Los Angeles neighbor artists Elmer Wachtel and Norman St. Clair. All three exhibited paintings with Laguna Beach titles at the annual Spring Exhibition held in San Francisco in 1904. By 1905 Redmond was receiving considerable recognition as a leading landscape painter and bold colorist. Redmond's early works in Los Angeles were mostly moody Tonal landscapes, scenes of farmers and their animals, and nocturnes similar to those by John Bond Francisco and other scenic painters in Northern California. Redmond also sought subjects throughout the state's coastal regions, such as Silver and Gold (oil on canvas, Laguna Art Museum), and often summered in Monterey County, where he later settled in 1908. In 1910, he moved farther north to San Mateo, becoming a member of San Francisco's art establishment, but he continued to exhibit in Los Angeles and to associate with that city's artists, returning to live there in 1918. From 1910 to 1917, he spent time in various Northern California locations, studying and painting. About the time he moved north, Redmond turned to rendering sweeping terrains covered with highly colorful wildflowers, especially the purple lupine and California's state flower, the golden poppy. He developed a colorist method and brushwork linked to Impressionism, though he was motivated more by his subjects than by aesthetic theory. West Coast critics at that time noted his use of Pointillism* and likened his art to that of Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Although Redmond recognized the public's preference for his brightly colored poppy pictures, he generally preferred to paint darker, more poetic scenes. Some of his finest paintings are of Catalina Island in Southern California, and of the oak

Lowell Ellsworth Smith Taos Adobe Ranch Painting

Lot # 512 (Sale Order: 512 of 1017)

Title is Study Taos Adobe Ranch. 10 1/2" by 14 1/2" unframed. 19" by 23" framed. Watercolor on Paper. Lowell Ellsworth Smith (1924 - 2008) was active/lived in Ohio. Lowel...more

Olaf Wieghorst Catch Me Oil Painting

Lot # 513 (Sale Order: 513 of 1017)

Title is Catch Me. 16" by 20" unframed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Gift of Artist to James Clifford, Family through Descent. Altermann Galleries, 09/17/2020, Lot 331. Pai...morenting is documented in the upcoming Artist Catalog Raisonne by James Drye, Page 199, Database ID 528. Condition: Painting would benefit from a cleaning and new varnish. Two small pinholes through the canvas where the frame was nailed into the stretcher bars. Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) was active/lived in California / Denmark. Olaf Wieghorst is known for Western-Indian-genre, horses. Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons"). He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel. In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion. He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.

William Meuttman The Singing Water Painting

Lot # 514 (Sale Order: 514 of 1017)

Title is The Singing Water Arizona 1916. 12" by 16" unframed. 16" by 20" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Closson's Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio Private Collection, New Me...more

William Seltzer Rice Walpai Pueblo Painting

Lot # 515 (Sale Order: 515 of 1017)

Title is The Governor's House Walpai Arizona. 22" by 27" unframed. 29 1/2" by 34" framed. Oil on Canvas. Newcomb-Macklin Frame. Provenance: Estate of Monroe Wingate. Trot...more

David Mayer June Storm Hallett Peak Painting

Lot # 516 (Sale Order: 516 of 1017)

Title is June Storm Hallett Peak Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado. 24" by 24" unframed, 34" by 34" framed. Oil on Board. David W. Mayer (Born 1944) was active/lived ...more

Heinie Hartwig Under Dark Skies Painting

Lot # 517 (Sale Order: 517 of 1017)

Title is Under Dark Skies. 10" by 14" unframed. 12 1/4" by 16 3/4" framed. Oil on Board. Heinie Hartwig (Born 1937) is active/lives in California. Heinie Hartwig is known...more

Greg Erway Buffalo Skull with Symbols Painting

Lot # 518 (Sale Order: 518 of 1017)

Title is Skull with Symbols. 24" by 24". Oil on Board. Greg Erway was born and raised on the Great Plains and shares a special connection to the continuing saga of this g...more

Carl Hirschberg Roquebrune France Painting

Lot # 519 (Sale Order: 519 of 1017)

Title is Roquebrune. Oil on Board. 14 3/4" by 18" framed. 10 3/4" by 14" unframed. Carl Hirschberg (1854 - 1923) was active/lived in Connecticut. Carl Hirschberg is known...more for Genre, figure, still life, illustration. A genre painter and illustrator, Carl Hirschberg was born in Berlin, and came to the United States with his parents, settling in New York City, where he began school at the age of six. At fourteen, Hirschberg apprenticed as a wood engraver, but gave it up three years later to study drawing at the National Academy of Design. In 1875, when the Art Students League was formed, Hirschberg became one of the original members. He studied figure painting with Walter Shirlaw, then went to England where he met and subsequently married a young British artist, Alice Kerr-Nelson. Hirschberg continued his art education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Cabanel and Lefebvre. In 1884, following the birth of their first child, the Hirschbergs moved to the United States, settling in New Rochelle and then in Buffalo, New York. According to their son, the artist George Laurence Nelson, "working together as a team," the two artists "would set the pattern for American design in calendars and fashion literature, painting in oil, and water color, and etching" (Nelson, "New Life for Old Timber," p. 29). While little is known about Hirschberg's career, like most of his generation of European-trained artists, he faced the problem of what to paint to meet nationalistic expectations. After the Civil War and into the 1890s there was a general longing for "home subjects." Between 1885 and circa 1900 Hirschberg produced several specifically "American" pictures. "Decoration Day", painted in 1885, depicts a group of little girls, mature ladies and Union soldiers decorating the grave of a Civil War hero. "The Veteran of 1893", possibly inspired by Thomas Hovenden's contemporaneous tributes to Civil War veterans, shows an attractive young woman pinning a medal on a Union officer's lapel, while a little boy stands at his side. In sharp contrast to these domestic scenes, "The Contrabands" is ostensibly a Civil War subject. Updating the theme of hunted fugitive slaves it shows a group of shackled men, women and children being herded like cattle toward an unspecified place. While history inspires the subject, the work is an historical genre picture of an incident that could have happened to African-Americans in the path of war. Its epic scale suggests that it was intended for exhibition, possibly at the National Academy of Design in New York, where Hirschberg showed from 1885 until 1893, or as part of a presently unknown mural scheme related to the Civil War.

Olive Vandruff Texas Oil Painting

Lot # 520 (Sale Order: 520 of 1017)

Title is Texas Hills. 17 5/8" by 23 3/4" framed. Oil on Board. 16" by 22" unframed. Olive F. Vandruff (1908 - 2003) was active/lived in Texas. Olive Vandruff is known for...more Landscape-animal, wildlife. Born at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, on 17 April 1908, to Ross and Mayme Buskirk Vandruff, Olive Freda Vandruff spent much of her childhood traveling in the Southwestern United States with her mining engineer father and her mother. Largely self-taught, Vandruff felt she received her artistic leanings from her father and grandfather. "Daddy and his father were artistically talented. They painted, but not professionally," she remembered in a 1963 interview for the "Amarillo Globe-Times". Vandruff moved to San Antonio in the 1931 where she became an assistant to sculptor Pompeo Coppini and worked as a commercial artist. She considered Texas her home. About 1937 she married the engraver Charles F. Anderson, and with him ran an engraving business in San Antonio until the mid-1940s. Vandruff then studied with the painter Edmund Giesbert at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1948. She also studied with Chicago sculptors Elisabeth H. Hibbard and Frederick C. Hibbard in the mid 1940s, eventually becoming an assistant to them. She returned to Texas around 1950 where she operated a sheep ranch near Kerrville and began to paint easel paintings. While in the Hill Country she became a renowned painter of animals and birds, "find[ing] it fascinating to capture … the aspects of nature whether it is feathers or fur." Vandruff was often commissioned to paint "portraits of cutting horses, quarter horses, registered cattle and the headquarters of famous ranches," as well as pets: As she recalled, "I painted pooch portraits, cats and brats." By 1953, she had already had six solo exhibitions at San Antonio, Houston, and Bandera, Texas, and in Miami Beach, Florida, and Chicago. Vandruff also exhibited at the Witte Museum's "Local Artists Show" in San Antonio and the "Houston Vicinity" exhibition, as well as with the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts. She met Western artist H. D. Bugbee of Clarendon, Texas, in 1960, during the preparations for a Coppini Academy exhibition. Vandruff and Bugbee married the following year and she relocated to Clarendon. She and Bugbee had a two-person exhibition at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in 1961. Upon Bugbee's death in 1963, Vandruff succeeded him as curator of art at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum until her retirement in 1982. She also taught art at West Texas State University (now West Texas A & M University). After retiring, Vandruff still volunteered at the Museum, driving the 150-mile round trip from Clarendon nearly every day until November 2002. As a volunteer, Vandruff worked in nearly all Museum departments, most recently in the Museum's Research Center, cataloguing photographs. Vandruff also acted as custodian of the Bugbee Ranch, founded northwest of Clarendon in 1913 and part of which is now covered by Lake Greenbelt. With its two-story Prairie-style home Bugbee Ranch may be unique in the state of Texas. Vandruff worked in several media, including pastel, watercolor, casein, and oil. The Baker Gallery in Lubbock and the Canyon Art Gallery handled her work in the Panhandle. Vandruff's paintings are found in public and private collections across the United States. Among her patrons were former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Texas governor Dolph Briscoe, and Amarillo oilman L. R. Hagy. Her public commissions consist of murals in Texas and Oklahoma, including a mural of Palo Duro Canyon for the First National Bank of Amarillo (now Banc of America). In 1976, she was included in the landmark exhibition, "The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960," in Fullerton, California. Recently, she was included in the "Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945", published by Texas A & M University Press and "Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Vandruff felt that art "is employed in almost every object" and it "might be the individuality expressed in almost any work, whether it be a painting or a house." Olive Vandruff died 4 January 2003.

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