Navajo Buck

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Provenance:
Private collection, Texas

Olaf Wieghorst lived enough for several lives. He came from a family of acrobats in Denmark, but yearned to see the United States so he served as a cabin boy on a steam ship during a voyage across the Atlantic. On U.S. soil, he promptly joined the U.S. Cavalry. He fought Pancho Villa and witnessed the last gasp of the Old West. He painted Navajo Buck in 1925, after his cavalry service, during a time when Wieghorst was cowboying in Arizona and New Mexico. Not long after, he headed back east, where he served as a mounted police officer in New York City, before finally returning West as a professional artist.

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