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THBOlaf C. Seltzer (1877-1957); White Man's Buffalo
Lot 65
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Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
11944 North Tracey Road
Hayden, ID 83835
United States
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction specializes in the finest classical Western and American Art representing past masters and outstanding contemporary artists. The auction principals have over 100 years of combined experience in selling fine art and have netted their clients over $325 million in the last fif...Read more
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The 2020 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction to be held July 25 in Reno, Nevada, will feature 264 selections of unparalleled quality in Western paintings and sculpture from historical and contemporary artists such as Charles M. Russell, Henry Farny, Thomas Moran, Edward S. Curtis, Carl Rungius, and more. Coeur d'Alene Art Auction info@cdaartauction.com
The 2020 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction to be held July 25 in Reno, Nevada, will feature 264 selections of unparalleled quality in Western paintings and sculpture from historical and contemporary artists such as Charles M. Russell, Henry Farny, Thomas Moran, Edward S. Curtis, Carl Rungius, and more. Coeur d'Alene Art Auction info@cdaartauction.com
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- Lot Description
Olaf C. Seltzer (1877-1957)
White Man's Buffalo
oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Label, C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT
According to Ed Ainsworth, “If the Mississippi has been the writer’s river of Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, so the ‘wide Missouri’ has been, in a similar sense, the painter’s river. Its presence in some of the most romantic country associated with the Western story has given to the river a living character, as if it had absorbed much of the spirit of the adventurous events taking place on or near its banks. ‘The Big Muddy’ cast its spell immediately upon a fifteen-year-old immigrant boy from Denmark. Olaf Seltzer—with the same first name as his distinguished successor in the same field, Olaf Wieghorst, also from Denmark—went to the wilds of Montana from the sophisticated city of Copenhagen in 1877 with his mother. He already had been an art prodigy, having been admitted to the Art Institute of Copenhagen at the age of twelve. Now he was in a totally new realm—one of vast distances, strange Indians, horses, cattle, ranch life, through which the wide Missouri rolled—and it was a region that began to fascinate him from the moment he entered it.”
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C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MTSurface condition is very good. Hairline cracks in sky. No signs of inpainting.Condition
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