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VERSO
Signed and titled

In 1991, John K. Goodman wrote, “I think the interesting part of the painting is that the center figure in the painting is Olaf Wieghorst looking across the Rio Grande River against the fire and smoke towards the remnants of the Villa Brigades.” Although Wieghorst served three years guarding against Pancho Villa’s revolutionaries, the most he saw of them were their campfires across the Rio Grande.

PROVENANCE
The artist
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Goodman, Tucson, Arizona, 1974
Present owner, by descent

EXHIBITED
Olaf Wieghorst Retrospective, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, 1981
Wieghorst, Dean of Western Painters, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1982-83
Olaf Wieghorst, A Retrospective Exhibition, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona, 1989

LITERATURE
Olaf Wieghorst Retrospective, Tucson Museum of Art, 1981, p. 50, illustrated
Wieghorst, Dean of Western Painters, Gilcrease Museum, 1982, p. 64
Olaf Wieghorst, A Retrospective Exhibition, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, 1989, p. 42, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. No signs of restoration.

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