Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 233 – 293 MelvinWarren (1920–1995) Top Hand of the Concho (1974) oil on canvas 24 × 36 inches signed lower left: ©Melvin C. Warren CA 1974 VERSO Signed, titled, and dated Label, Cowboy Artists of America Label, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California PROVENANCE Pete and Janet Taggares, Washington EXHIBITED Cowboy Artists of America 9th Annual Exhibition , Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1974 The Cowboy , San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, 1981 LITERATURE Cowboy Artists of America 9th Annual Exhibition , Phoenix Art Museum, 1974, p. 71, listed Royal B. Hassrick, Western Painting Today , Watson-Guptill, 1975, p. 100, illustrated $30,000–50,000