2018 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 261
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Robert Duncan (b. 1952)
The Apprentice (1986)
oil on canvas
32 × 54 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Signed, titled, and dated
The artist wrote, “This painting was inspired by watching my uncle and my son harness the horses to go feed cattle last winter. The scene, very ordinary but also with great potential in terms of light and composition, stayed with me in the studio.”
EXHIBITED
Twenty-First Exhibition, Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 25 - Nov 23, 1986
LITERATURE
Exhibition catalog, Cowboy Artists of America (Phoenix, AZ: Cowboy Artists of America, 1986), p 350, illustrated