23 Bender, Bill - Buddies

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This item SOLD at 2018 Jan 19 @ 13:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price NA
Estimated at 600.00 - 900.00 USD
Buddies
Artist: Bender, BillDate of Birth: b. 1919
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 20 x 30
Signed: Signed lower left and dated 72
Verso:
Frame/Outer Dim: 28 x 38
California native Bill Bender saw some of the last of the cowboy idyll working with a pack outfit in Kernville in the 1930’s where, as he put it, “there were as many horses as there were cars.” The landscape made a painter of Bill Bender. He fell under the desert spell of James Swinnerton but soon developed his own style, soft, filled with light, and dappled with shadow.
A copy of the Leanin’ Tree greeting card that features this art work will accompany this lot.