261 Meyers, Robert - 23rd Psalm

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This item SOLD at 2018 Jan 19 @ 17:04UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
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23rd Psalm
Artist: Meyers, RobertDate of Birth: 1919-1970
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 12 x 16
Signed: Signed lower left
Verso: Signed and titled verso
Frame/Outer Dim: 22 x 26
Leaving the hustle of the commercial art world in New York for the life of a Wyoming rancher, Bob Meyers nonetheless kept his brush moving between chores. Meyers’s easy Western realism was beginning to attract attention when his life was cut short by a bullet in what seems to have been an old fashioned feud over a property line.
This lot is illustrated in The Story of Leanin' Tree on page 321. Marylee Moreland and Gary Temple. Robert W. “Bob” Meyers: Artist of the South Fork. Billings, MT: The Meadowlark Gallery. 2006. A copy of the book will accompany this lot. A copy of the Leanin’ Tree greeting card that features this art work will accompany this lot.