Melvin Warren
1920-1995
Clearing Skies and Willing Horses
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 24 x 36 inches
ESTIMATE: $14,000.00 - $24,000.00
Signed and dated 1964 lower right
2024 - AUGUST,
LOT 121
Additional Information
Provenance:
A private collection in Texas
Melvin Warren was born in California but grew up on ranches in Arizona and New Mexico, before moving with his family to Texas at age fourteen. Warren served in the Air Force during World War II and received a fine art degree from Texas Christian University upon his return. While his desire was to be a full-time easel painter and sculptor, he worked as an illustrator early in his career in order to support his family, while creating his own work at night. By the early 1960s, Warren achieved sufficient success as a fine artist that he was able to leave the commercial art field. Warren joined the Cowboy Artists of America in 1968 and won the Memorial Award in his first exhibition with the CAA. President Lyndon B. Johnson was an avid collector of Warren's work, as was former Texas Governor John Connally Jr.