Chris Calle (B. 1961) "Home on the Range" W/C

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Aug 14, 2022

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  Chris Calle (American, B. 1961) "Home on the Range - Portrait of a Cowboy" Signed lower right. Original watercolor painting on Illustration Board.
  
  Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
  
  This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover of the U.S. 29c Home on the Range stamp issued October 18, 1994.
  
  The character of the West was molded by a wide variety of rugged individualists: trappers, traders, prospectors and enterprisers. But the men and women who gave it permanency were the first settlers. Buying cattle from the Mexicans in Texas, these hardy souls drove the herds northward across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains. They built ranches, put down roots and made the land productive. For the most part, they were tough, singleminded business people on horseback who knew how to survive in an isolated, inhospitable region that offered only wild prairie grass and an occasional free flowing stream. They learned how to cope with solitude, failure and backbreaking toil, while battling the hazards of nature and each other. Some survived and some didn't. But many of those who did -- men like Texans Charles Goodnight and Richard King, Wyoming's Francis Warren, New Mexico's John Chisum and Montana's Conrad Kohrs -- became legendary and accumulated enormous power and wealth. The years between 1866 and 1886 were the glory days of Western ranching, when more than 10 million cattle and one million sheep were shipped to markets in the East. Land was cheap -- sometimes even free for the taking. Life was often cheap, too, as cattle rustlers and horse thieves were shot on sight or hanged without a trial. By the 1870s, barbed wire was closing in the open range and newcomers were plowing up the earth. Some cattlemen overextended, overgrazed and overstocked.
  
  Image Size: 19.25 x 14.5 in.
  Overall Size: 23 x 20 in.
  Unframed.
  (B14837)

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