Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 62 – 77 Olaf Wieghorst (1899–1988) Big Bend Patrol oil on canvas 24 × 30 inches signed lower left: O –Wieghorst [artist cipher] VERSO Signed and titled In 1991, John K. Goodman wrote, “I think the interesting part of the painting is that the center figure in the painting is Olaf Wieghorst looking across the Rio Grande River against the fire and smoke towards the remnants of the Villa Brigades.” AlthoughWieghorst served three years guarding against Pancho Villa’s revolutionaries, the most he saw of themwere their campfires across the Rio Grande. PROVENANCE The artist Mr. &Mrs. John K. Goodman, Tucson, Arizona, 1974 Present owner, by descent EXHIBITED Olaf Wieghorst Retrospective , TucsonMuseum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, 1981 Wieghorst, Dean of Western Painters , Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1982-83 Olaf Wieghorst, A Retrospective Exhibition , Desert Caballeros WesternMuseum, Wickenburg, Arizona, 1989 LITERATURE Olaf Wieghorst Retrospective , TucsonMuseum of Art, 1981, p. 50, illustrated Wieghorst, Dean of Western Painters , Gilcrease Museum, 1982, p. 64 Olaf Wieghorst, A Retrospective Exhibition , Desert Caballeros WesternMuseum, 1989, p. 42, illustrated $20,000–30,000 John Clymer (1907–1989) Visitors at Fort Clatsop (1978)