267 Wagon Talk

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This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 15:04UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 50,000.00 USD
Estimated at 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD
Wagon Talk
Artist: Delano, Gerard CurtisDate of Birth: 1890-1972
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 16 x 30 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
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After his parents separated, young Gerard Curtis Delano had a rather lonely childhood in Massachusetts which he filled with fishing, roaming the woods, and drawing. No one thought much of his ambition to become an artist, but Delano persisted and made his way to and through art schools in New Bedford and New York and embarked on a career in commercial art. Some of his earliest drawings had been of Indians—the West held a special fascination for him. In the 1920’s, he went West, enjoyed some success, then returned to the East Coast to study with N. C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn. Delano then returned to the West for good, making Native Americans—the Navajo in particular—and the history of the Old West his artistic province. Lush masses, soft light, and beautiful contrasting colors animate Delano’s paintings. Wagon Talk is tense—note hand on gun, probable language barrier—but there is something sympathetic—maybe it’s the red of the drover’s shirt matching the red of the Indian’s robe—that suggests that they will work this out.