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THBJim Butcher (B. 1944) "Southwestern Windmill" W/C
Lot 443
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Jan 9, 2022
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2022-01-09 13:00:00
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Over 400 lots of fine art, including a collection of old master paintings and works on paper, antiques, bronzes, and porcelain. Helmuth Stone Gallery helmuthstone@gmail.com
Over 400 lots of fine art, including a collection of old master paintings and works on paper, antiques, bronzes, and porcelain. Helmuth Stone Gallery helmuthstone@gmail.com
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Jim Butcher (American, B. 1944) "Southwestern Windmill" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Cold Press Illustration Board.
Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
This painting is the original painting which was published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the U.S. 15c Southwestern Windmill stamp issued February 7, 1980.
The prairie flower's slender stem reaches skyward while the steel-petaled blossom revolves in the wind. As the endless Texas plain recedes into the distance, this floral species becomes recognizable as an American windmill. Invented around 1860 and used widely throughout the United States, this windmill displays a greater number of blades than its European predecessor. Originally made of wood, but now made of metal, American wind-catchers are not as pretty, nor as graceful as European windmills; but, they have done their jobs for over a century. These scrawny mills have drawn water from the ground that is so valuable to the arid west that it transformed the Great American Desert into the Great Plains. The railroads used the windmills to pump running water into their depot tanks, and ranchers used them to irrigate their land. Windmills supplied water to salt mines in Texas and volunteer fire departments throughout the west. At the end of a hot, dusty day on the trail, sweating cowboys chased their four-footed rivals from the barnyard tank and cooled off in the water the windmills provided. Prairie preachers dunked repentant sinners into water tanks to sanctify them. And, the windmills filled the waiting tanks with water that washed clothes and cooled food. Today, the western prairies are still alive with these whirling windmills, as Americans meet an ancient challenge to capture the restless wind.
Image Size: 22.5 x 17.5 in.
Overall Size: 28.5 x 23.5 in.
Unframed.
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