Description:
Olaf C. Seltzer (American, 1877-1957)
Blackfeet Indian on Horseback
Signed "O.C. SELTZER" l.l., with a pencil sketch profile of a brave in the margin.
Pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper, 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (21.0 x 29.2 cm),framed.
Condition: Toning, scattered minor accretions, tack holes along bottom and at c.r. edge, minor rippling, slight impression from mat window along right side (more visible from the reverse),hinged to window mat at center of the reverse, with tape remnants at top edge of the reverse from a prior hinging.
Provenance: By descent to the current owner from his grandfather, Richard T. Ellis of Great Falls, Montana, who was an acquaintance of Charles M. Russell and O.C. Seltzer.
Estimate $6,000-8,000
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