209 Roundup Riders

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This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 14:05UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 25,000.00 USD
Estimated at 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD
Roundup Riders
Artist: Wieghorst, OlafDate of Birth: 1899-1988
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 x 38 inches
Signed: Signed lower left
Verso: Titled and dated 1959 verso

Roundup Riders has all you could want in Wieghorst. Lots of mounted cowboys, all different, and all on different mounts, moving through a rutted pass between crested buttes. A nice chuck wagon rambling among beside them. Sun peeking through a lowering sky, carving out the cowboys with light and shadow. Some dust, of course, kicked up under hoof. Wieghorst keeps his pallette narrow and restrained here, which gives the painting a certain placidity. Maybe because there’s no herd—yet. Looks like an awful lot of fun, for now.