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THBWilliam Herbert Dunton (1878 – 1936) — J-D Outfit (ca. 1906)
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LiveNov 11, 2023
The 2023 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Online Auction to be held November 11 will feature 66 selections of Western paintings and sculpture from historical and contemporary artists such as William Herbert Dunton, Victor Higgins, Mark Maggiori, Charlie Dye, and more. Coeur d'Alene Art Auction info@cdaartauction.com
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William Herbert Dunton (1878 – 1936)
J-D Outfit (ca. 1906)
oil on canvas
30 × 20 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Label, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas
According to art historian Michael R. Grauer, “While Dunton made a number of trips west between 1896 and 1911, the specific details of his travels remain ambiguous. He did recall in a 1914 New York Sun article that he had ‘been on three cow outfits in [Park and Musselshell counties, Montana], and on one in Oregon … also worked in the cattle country of Wyoming, on two outfits in Colorado, in Mexico, and spent two years in the greatest cattle country of New Mexico.’ He thought he ‘wanted to be a cow boy [sic] … But … [l]ong hours, hard work, sorry grub and sorry pay, and – no future’ cured him. Plus, he always said he made a sorry ‘puncher’ as he couldn’t ‘rope a sick chicken with its legs hobbled.’ Dunton trips to the West were confined to summers while he worked and studied in the East during the rest of the year.“Typically, Dunton sketched in watercolor and completed his canvases in the East. J-D Outfit could have been completed following this process and painted at his studio in his barn at his Ridgewood, New Jersey, studio where he moved about 1905. Or it could have been painted in Montana in 1906. This painting also presages Dunton’s series of paintings he created in Taos between about 1912 and 1918 depicting lone cowboys, vaqueros, or American Indians posed on a hill and silhouetted against the sky.
“In this case, the cowboy rests on what could be a Visalia, California, slick fork saddle with square skirts (normally favored in Texas). A quirt dangles from his right wrist while he wears a Montana-peak hat, leather wrist cuffs, and woolly chaps, all typical of a northern plains cowboy seen often in the paintings of Dunton’s friend Charles M. Russell. His three-button wool shirt and red ‘wild rag’ are also typical of the cow-country period depicted. While J-D Outfit may have been reproduced, I have never felt that it was painted for illustration. I believe it may be one of Dunton’s earliest Western easel paintings.”
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Washington
Present owner, by descent
EXHIBITED
W. Herbert Dunton: A Retrospective, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, 1991
LITERATURE
Julie Schimmel, The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, 1878-1936, University of Texas Press, 1984, pp. 24, 205
Michael Grauer, W. Herbert Dunton: A Retrospective, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 1991, pp. 13, 38, illustratedCondition
Surface is in excellent condition. Canvas has been lined. Scattered spots of inpainting. Mostly in sky, upper left and center.
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