| 15. Olaf S. Wieghorst (American, b.1899), "Partners", c.1950; oil/canvas, 20" x 24", signed. Highly important Western painter.
Wieghorst served in the calvary on the Mexican border around 1918, before taking a job as a ranch hand on the Quarter Circle
2C Ranch, whose brand eventually became his insignia. He went to New York City in 1923, where he remained for the next twenty
years, working for the New York City Mounted Police. He was selling his work readily by 1940. His style was highly realistic, and was
sold as western illustrations and calendar art. He retired in 1944, and moved to California to paint full time. He abandoned his
commercialized style, and became a fine painter. Wieghorst believed that a successful painting should have narrative substance,
evoking emotion from the viewer, while maintaining the highest degree of accuracy in anatomical detail of the subject. 20,000-30,000 |
