203 Mounted Indian Warrior

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 112,500.00 USD
Estimated at 225,000.00 - 325,000.00 USD
Mounted Indian Warrior
Artist: Schreyvogel, CharlesDate of Birth: 1861-1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
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Charles Schreyvogel, who was born in New York City and studied in Munich, was never a prolific illustrator, so the national acclaim accorded his contemporaries, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, came late to him and was short-lived due to his early demise at the age of 51. He did, however, travel widely in the West from his home in New Jersey, sketching and documenting life on U.S. Army posts and Native American reservations. Unlike Remington and Russell, the cowboy was not a typical subject for Schreyvogel. Most of the fewer than 100 major works he had painted when he died were scenes of intense conflict between soldiers and Indians. In 1901, his powerful action scene, My Bunkie, in which a cavalryman rescues a friend who has lost his horse during a scuffle, won top honors at the National Academy of Design, and his star rose quickly. Schreyvogel rivals Remington and Russell in authenticity and in his skill at painting horses and men.
Mounted Indian Warrior is a wonderful example of the kind of work that arose from Schreyvogel’s journeys. On a bluebird day, a Northern Plains warrior on a fine high-stepping, bob-tailed horse, canters towards a village in the haze at left. Another warrior rides behind him while two others race ahead, just across the creek. Schreyvogel captures the beauty of the moment, playing pastels against power, wind against sinew. It should be noted that this work is in a period frame and is in superb condition.