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Vintage American Western illustration art, oil on canvas board, circa 1940s. A dramatic corral scene: a cowboy leads a rearing bronc while the remuda mills behind him beneath distant desert mesas.
The painting belongs to the golden age of American magazine and pulp Western illustration, when Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy and Blue Book commissioned story art from painters working in the Howard Pyle and Harvey Dunn tradition. Comparable artists include Harold von Schmidt, Tom Lovell, Nick Eggenhofer, John Clymer and Frank Stoops. Bronc-breaking and ranch scenes were a staple of Western fiction illustration through the 1940s and early 1950s. Much studio work of this kind was painted on commercial canvas board and left unsigned.
Medium: oil. Support: M. Grumbacher "Pre-tested" Artists Painting Panel No. 635P, New York and Toronto. The original manufacturer's label and printed artist form are on the verso. The panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Tack holes run the full perimeter, consistent with boards mounted in the studio. It is presented in a period American frame with a stepped bullnose profile, rounded corners and bronze-gilt finish, circa 1930s–40s.
Attribution: unsigned; artist not identified. Offered as mid-century American Western illustration art. No published source has been matched to date.
