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VERSO
Signed and titled
Label, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York
Label, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York
Label, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Art historian Patricia Border wrote, “Ufer enjoyed the role of storyteller, and his paintings are rich in narrative value. His palette varied little during the later years of his career. He painted the golden earth of the sun-baked desert, the greens of the sagebrush and desert vegetation, and the brilliant blue sky of New Mexico. For his shadows he frequently used purple, the complement of the desert yellow. His only black was mixed from permanent blue and burnt sienna. He treated figure and background as integral elements of a single entity, advising: ‘Treat things as a whole. The horse becomes a part of the mesa and takes on the colors of the mesa.’”

PROVENANCE
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2014
Private collection, Beaver Creek, Colorado

LITERATURE
Larry Len Peterson, The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, 2021, p. 337, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.

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