262 Meyers, Robert - A Load Of Posts

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This item SOLD at 2018 Jan 19 @ 17:05UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price NA
Estimated at 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
A Load Of Posts
Artist: Meyers, RobertDate of Birth: 1919-1970
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 24
Signed: Signed lower left
Verso:
Frame/Outer Dim: 28 x 34

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. A copy of the book "Robert W. "Bob" Myers: Artist of the South Fork" will accompany this lot.
This lot is illustrated in The Story of Leanin' Tree on page 323. 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.