Indian Trail

Artist Olaf Wieghorst (American, born Denmark, 1899 - 1988)

Dateca. 1959

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (61.6 x 76.84 cm)
Framed: 39 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (100.33 x 85.09 x 4.45 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Goodman

Object numberF85-40

Signedl.l.: "O---Wieghorst" and the brand of the Quarter Circle 2C Ranch in Arizona where Wieghorst worked in the early 1920s. He incorporates this insignia in his signature.

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DescriptionSix American Indians on horseback at top of hill; two more coming up the hill and several other riders seen in the distance. Canyon walls encircle the foreground of vegetation in brown, green, red. Cloudy, light-blue sky.Published References

Published References

Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Notable
Documentary Artists of the Old West; Also Plains Indian Art and
Other Western Americana, exh. cat. (Cody, Wyo.: Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1962), 15 (as
Nez Perce); Olaf Wieghorst, exh. cat. (San Diego: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1976), 11 (as Indian Country); James E. Drye,
A Collector’s Guide to the Prints of Olaf Wieghorst (Mesa, Ariz.:
Spidy Quality Publishing, 2000), 68–69.

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