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THBRobert Farrington Elwell (1874-1962) Where Experience Counts
Lot 43
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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Robert Farrington Elwell (1874-1962)
Where Experience Counts
signed "R. Farrington Elwell" lower left
oil on canvas, 15 by 31 1/2 in.
titled "Where Experience Counts - May" on stretcher and on label on back
Robert Farrington Elwell was born in Boston in 1874 to a stone mason. He studied to be a civil engineer and pursued art on the side. While sketching Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show for "The Boston Globe" in 1892, he caught the cowboy showman's attention. William F. Cody invited Elwell out West, where he went in 1896 and ultimately became Cody's ranch manager and close friend.
A 1925 "Boston Globe" article notes, "In [Elwell's] pictures and writings he lives over again much of the life he lived with Buffalo Bill in the Wild West show, on the ranches, on the prairies, foothills and mountain trails. And you feel the thrill of his enthusiasm for the great outdoors in all the pictures."
The artist's work can be found in the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1962.
Provenance: Private Collection, Iowa
Literature: A. J. Philpott, "Wild West lives once more in pictures that Elwell paints," Boston Sunday Globe, April 5, 1925.Please email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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