7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

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AUCTIONING HIGH END ARTWORK ON MAY 30TH FROM 5pm to 9pm MST

ARTISTS INCLUDE: N.C.WYETH,  GERALD CASSIDY, DAVID BURLIUK, PATROCINO BARELA, EDITH BRISCOE STEVENS, ELIZABETH CATLETT, PABLITA VELARDE, OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, HUNT DIEDERICH, ANTON MAUVE, WILL HUTCHINS,  MAX LUNA, HOWARD COOK,  HERBERT DUTTON, JOSE DOLORES LOPEZ, NAVAJO RUGS, NELL DORR, EDWARD WESTON, PICASSO, DIEGO RIVERA, JOY LAVILLE, CHARLES DANA GIBSON,  ARTHUR B. DAVIES, MARGARET TAFOYA,   GISELLA LOEFFLER, ANTHONY THIEME, KATHE KOLLEWITZ, EDITH HEAD, KENNETH M CHAPMAN, LEON GASPARD, ALSON CLARK, EUGENE HIGGINS, FREDERIC REMINGTON, HENRI CROSS, CONSTANCE MACKY, WALT KUHN,  JOSEPH SACKS, JULES PASCIN, WARREN ROLLINS, E. I. COUSE

DANIEL HERNANDEZ MORILLO,  EDITH WHITE, GILBERT ATENCIO, MAX KUEHNE, SIGMUND MENKES, JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, JOHN SINGER SARGENT, JACK WILKINSON SMITH, CARL WOOLSEY, J J ENNEKING,  MICHEL VEDANI, GERALD NAILOR, JOSEPH MEEKER, HARRISON BEGAY, MOSE TOLLIVER, REGINALD MARSH, THOMAS HART BENTON, CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS, OLIVE RUSH, JOHN FERY, ANNA SKEELE,  ARNOLD RONNEBECK, RUDOLPH DIRKS, TONY ABEYTA, GENE KLOSS, HENRY REDMORE,  LOUIS SIEGREIST, SAMUEL FULTON, JULES LEPAGE, BART. ASSTEYN, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ELEANOR COLBURN, PETER HURD, JEAN MANNHEIM, ODA KAZUMA, MAURICE LOGAN, HANNIBAL ALKHAS, JUNIUS SLOAN, MAX LUNA, FRANK PENFOLD, LILLY MARTIN SPENCER

FRANK SHAPLEIGH, JOSEPH SHARP,  WILLIAM SHERWOOD, WALTON LEADER, ROSSO FORINTINO, ILA MCAFEE, CLAUDE HOWELL, ZOLTAN SEPESHY, WILL SHUSTER, LOUISE DE GUIMARD, NELLIE KNOPF,  MAX ARNOLD, ROBERT MARC,  LUKE CLELLEN, NAMPEYO, DULAH KREHBIEL, ALBERT KREHBIEL

7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............OLAF WIEGHORST.............'ROPING A COLT',  4" x 6".............

This is an 4" x 6" Original and Vintage pencil on paper by the important California painter Olaf Wieghorst, 1899-1988. The image is of a cowboy on horseback pulling on a downed colt, with other riders. Signed with monogram at lower right. From a sketchbook from a friend in Florida.  Fine condition. Unframed.

 

The Biography Follows:

Olaf Carl Wieghorst was born to a display artist and a photo retoucher in Viborg, Jutland, Denmark in 1899. His education was in the Copenhagen public schools and, at a young age, he developed an acrobatic act at the Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen where he was breathlessly billed as "Little Olaf- The Miniature Acrobat." By the age of fourteen Olaf Wieghorst, who would eventually grow to be over 6'4", was too big to be logically referred to as miniature, and started working on a stock farm, where he first learned to ride horses and began to teach himself to paint.

The passion that Olaf Wieghorst developed for horses would be a source of lifelong inspiration. Transfixed by the stories and images of the American west, Olaf Wieghorst joined the crew of a Dutch shipping vessel and promptly jumped ship in New York City, despite the fact that he had $1.25 to his name and knew not a word of English. Olaf Wieghorst joined the US Cavalry and was stationed at the Mexican border as a horseshoer, a job that allowed him contact with his primary preoccupation. He also learned rodeo and trick riding techniques from the men around him and further developed his painting style.

Olaf Wieghorst left the service and worked as a ranch hand in Arizona at the Quarter 2C Ranch, whose brand he adopted as his insignia. Olaf Wieghorst returned to New York City in 1923 and joined the police force, graduating in 1925. He was assigned to the Police Show Team of the Mounted Division, and continued to paint. The first professional representation Olaf Wieghorst had was in 1940 when an agent he had found sold vast quantities of his work to publishers as calendar art and western illustration.

The change in his lifestyle after he began to find artistic success was dramatic. By 1942 his commissioned paintings went for $500 and, two years later, Olaf Wieghorst had retired from the Police Department and was living in El Cajon, CA. Olaf Wieghorst would produce the majority of his life's work in California and would be best known during his lifetime as a painter of horse portraits, including such equine celebrities as Roy Rogers' Trigger and Gene Autry's Champion. ghWieghorst's work is in many prestigious western collections, including those of Barry Goldwater, The Eisenhower Library and the Whitney Gallery in Cody, Wyoming.

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