276 The Old Arrow Tree

Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 50,000.00 USD
Estimated at 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD
The Old Arrow Tree
Artist: Sharp, Joseph H.Date of Birth: 1859-1953
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 17 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
Verso:

In archery, as in everything else in life, practice makes perfect. To hunt a living, moving target, deer or turkey, as the Taos Indians did (and maybe still do) with bow and arrow, and to anticipate success, is a pretty tall order. Maybe you’re planning a hunt. Maybe just returned from one, and it didn’t go so well. You need a quiet place to practice, away from everyone, to get the feel for the bow, this bow, and these arrows. Thus, The Old Arrow Tree. With only the trees and your horse to see you (and they aren’t talking), you can miss, and adjust, and miss, and adjust, to your heart’s content. The fact that the Fall day is beautiful, and the light of the sun is blowing around in the aspens doesn’t hurt, either.