George Phippen
1915-1966
Horse Play
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower left
Titled verso
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 22 x 26 inches
SOLD FOR: $ 12,870.00
Including Buyers Premium
2020,
LOT 96
Additional Information
With little training in art at all, apart from three months with Henry Balink in Santa Fe, after World War II, George Phippen still somehow secured a contract to illustrate catalogues for Brown and Bigelow. Soon, Phippen was making a living making art of the American West. Phippen, the first President of the Cowboy Artists of America, once said, “The art game, which includes illustrating, fine art, and cartooning, is considered about the toughest business there is… but no job holds the freedom the arts do once you make the grade.”