Frank McCarthy
1924-2002
Horse Raid
MEDIUM: Oil on board
DIMENSIONS: 24 x 36 inches
Signed/CA and dated 1980 lower right
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 35x47
SOLD FOR: $21,060.00
Including Buyers Premium
AUCTION 2023 (APRIL),
LOT 285
Additional Information
Provenance:
Husberg Fine Arts Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2017
Frank McCarthy paintings are unions of action and detail. The action part can largely be traced back to his days as an illustrator, particularly his time painting images for Hollywood action movies, including the James Bond franchise. The detail came from his love of nature and how it interacted with light. “His paintings are realistic down to the finest particulars,” Elmer Kelton writes in The Art of Frank McCarthy. “He finds beauty in many things: the eroded, sometimes jagged, coarse rock; gnarled, bleached-out logs and stumps; the dirt and the sage; the play of light on muscles levering a carbine or wielding a war club; or a horse galloping full tilt…all this, and the many variations of light, shade and color.”
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