Live Auction 19499The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection
Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
Lot 29 The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection

Tom Lovell (1909-1997)

Catchers of Wild Horses

Closed28 October 2020

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Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
Catchers of Wild Horses
signed and dated 'Tom Lovell/CA/© 1994' (lower left)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the backing board)
oil on canvas
22 x 36 in. (55.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1994.

Private collection, California.
Texas Art Gallery, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 3 November 2007, lot 79, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.

Specialist note

After switching from a career in illustration to become a Western artist, Tom Lovell focused his lifelong passion for Native American culture into depictions of Indian life and historical subjects of the Old West. The present example shows a group of men on a search for wild horses, hoping to catch and train them for working or trading purposes.