99 The Keeper of the Flock

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This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 11:04UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 7,500.00 USD
Estimated at 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD
The Keeper of the Flock
Artist: Swanson, RayDate of Birth: 1937-2004
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 42 x 32 inches
Signed: Signed lower right/CA
Verso: Signed and titled verso

Ray Swanson was born in rural South Dakota and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse. After his father passed away, the family moved to California where Swanson studied drafting and aeronautical engineering and became a civil engineer. When he inherited a box of paints from his grandfather, Swanson began to paint farm subjects as a hobby. But the budding artist fell for the Native Americans of Arizona: the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache, and felt that their way of life would make an excellent subject for a professional painter. And Ray Swanson became that painter.