Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) - mythic West

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick 'Western' or American West post - 

Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) was born in Denmark (in the Duchy of Holstein), trained in Europe (Hamburg, Germany and England) and in 1877 AD emigrated to the USA.

He became enamored in the Old West of the late XIX century and conveyed his liking for American horses, cowboys, Indians and landscapes in his works, from watercolor, to oils and etching.

Some galleries with his artwork on Net display - eg Invaluable MutualArt

@ Christie's auctioned painting 

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Valete

ps

only 4 days to Christmas' Eve  - ;)

Richard Lorenz - German painter of the American very West

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick post - a day before this year's Nowruz - happy Spring, or Spring Equinox

very Polish or German landscape 

Richard Lorenz ( 1853-1915)

A German painter who emigrated, legally presumably, from Prussia Kingdom to the US in 1880s, settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

sold on Christies 2 years ago

images from Wiki Commons 

Valete

Edgar S. Paxson - Wild West brushes & pencils of Montana

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a little Wild West frontier art done by a real pioneer 

and soldier.

mural art from the Montana Capitol 

Lewis and Clark 

Death of John Bozeman of the Bozeman Trail

Native of New York, American painter Samuel Edgar Paxson (1852-1919) was a Montana pioneer, adventurer, settler, and US soldier during the brutal US war in the Philippines, was a survivor and injured in process of the Army naval transport ship wrecking outside Japan  - here his short biography from the Montana Historical Society or University of Montana site. 

chief Joseph of Nez Perce surrender

explorer Pierre de la Verendrye

Both Montana genre and historical artists  Edgar  Paxson and Charlie Russell were friends during their lives, apparently lifetime friends, and Russell eulogized Paxson's  untimely passing. 

Custer's defeat and Lakota victory - Little Big Horn battle

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Charles M. Russell - buffalo hunts

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a short entry - some of the fabulous works by Charles M. Russell showing buffalo/bison hunts on horseback.

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at the Amon Carter Museum there are  photos of maestro Charles and his art, including one at his studio with a canvass on easel showing a bison herd. 

 from Charlie Russell had a satirical streak eg

and a 'white Indian' story from More Rawhide stories by master storyteller Charles M. Russell -

and another illustration from My sixty years on the plains, trapping, trading, and Indian fighting a book I wrote about  2 years ago.

Valete

Howard Terpning' amazing American horses

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I would like to share with you my admiration for the 'brush works' of one American artist - maestro Howard Terpning, who this year will celebrate his 95th birthday.
This gallery - The Fine Arts Publishing - has a very comprehensive page containing multi-level presentation of his art including fine prints of artworks, biography and interviews with maestro Terpning.

Gallery 601 has a page devoted to maestro and his brushes.

and many other out there on the net

I own two albums, and especially enjoy the old, 1992, Album - here how these books are standing on Amazon.

Nota bene maestro Terpning created some of the finest posters for Hollywood movies, including some of the great ones from the 1960s Hollywood - like The Warlord, Lawrence of Arabia, The Professionals, Ride the High Country, Guns of Navarone,  Cleopatra etc.

There are almost no 'libre' images/scans of Mr Terpning's multiple works that are horse-oriented, there is one on Wiki Commons from Greenwich Workshop.
You can view many, literally hundreds, on Pinterest, but I am not sure if these could be treated  a fair use under the copyright laws. So I am not going to link them here, also my search engine  bring hudnres of results in terms of fine images. 

I love copying his horses... be it in pen, pencil or mixmedia. 
another fine painter of this genre (Art of the West, Western Art) is sadly already deceased Frank McCarthy.

Stay strong 

valete