Frank Hoffman
1888-1958
Bucking Bronc
MEDIUM: Oil on board
DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 1/2 inches
Signed lower left
SOLD FOR: $9,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
2026 - APRIL,
LOT 332
Additional Information
Provenance:
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2008
Raised in the Big Easy, New Orleans, Frank Hoffman discovered his first subject through his father, a horse racer. Being close to these magnificent animals allowed him to draw and paint them with ease. In Chicago, Hoffman became an illustrator and art director at the Chicago American newspaper. Upon the onset of World War I, he tried to enlist but poor eyesight kept him from service. He went to Glacier National Park to serve as the park’s public relations director, and then finally to his Hobby Horse Ranch in Taos, New Mexico. It was in Taos, surrounded by animals, where Hoffman made his best work.