- Artist:
- Lee, Charles
- Title:
- Rounding up the wild horses
- Description:
- A painting of a Navajo man herding five horses at a gallop across the reservation. The man is wearing a red headband, no shirt, dark blue pants and high-topped, hard-soled moccasins with silver buttons up the sides. He is using a deer hide for a saddle and a single rope tied around the horse's lower jaw as a bridle. The horse he is riding is a paint and the horses he is chasing are black, white, a bay, a buckskin and sorrel. The man is waving a deer skin in his right hand. There are mesas in the background and the sky is overcast.
- Subjects:
- Navajo (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.440
- Size:
- image: 22 x 28 in.; framed: 24 7/8 x 31 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material); Brown (color); Trimming (decorative material); Silver (color)
- Media:
- Oil paint (paint)
- Signature:
- YE-HA-YAH (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow via absentee bid from a Skinner, Inc. auction, Bolton, MA, January 23, 1995. On the back of the frame: "Skinner 16241 Lot 347." A photo of the artist and his wife holding the painting is included in the artist's file.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Rounding up the wild horses", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.440.html
Rights
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