William Gollings
1878-1932
Watching The Outfit
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 18 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches
Signed and dated 04' lower right, tilted lower middle
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 25 x 31 inches
SOLD FOR: $18,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
Additional Information
Provenance:
Artist's Union Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Santa Fe Art Auction, Santa Fe, NM, 2006
Private collection, New Mexico
Literature:
Elling William “Bill” Gollings: A Cowboy Artist, William T. Ward and Gary L. Temple, Patagonia Publishing Company, 2007, p. 16.
Working in the saddle starting at 19 years old, William Gollings considered himself a cowboy first and an artist second. He started drawing first and was exposed to paint through a mail-order kit purchased when he was 25 years old. He was later taught printmaking under Hans Kleiber. In 1909, he built a studio in Sheridan, Wyoming, where he lived an ornery and private life until his death in 1932. This work, dated 1904, is shown as Untitled – Three Indians in the book Elling William “Bill” Gollings: A Cowboy Artist.
