Frank McCarthy
1924-2002
The Warriors’ Return
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 40 inches
ESTIMATE: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
AUCTION 2018,
LOT 334
Additional Information
Frank McCarthy began his career in art working elbow to elbow with many famous illustrators. They painted and brawled together in the 50’s and 60’s, living the Bohemian life in what was called “The Bullpen,” a building in Midtown Manhattan that was, in reality, a hive of artists who lived from assignment to assignment as the Mad Men of the day dreamed up campaigns for pulp novels, cigarettes, lingerie and Oldsmobiles. McCarthy illustrated books and magazine stories and did posters for Hollywood–James Bond films in particular. In 1974, McCarthy shed his journeyman artist role and moved to Arizona, where he set up his easel and created some of the finest action scenes that ever leapt out of the Old West. In The Warriors’ Return, McCarthy shows us the triumphant aftermath of a conflict between Plains Indian cavalry and, perhaps, the U.S. Cavalry.
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