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Carl Tolpo The Rising Moon Oil Painting 1935

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Carl Tolpo The Rising Moon Oil Painting 1935
IIncluded in this lot is an original, signed Carl Tolpo oil painting, “The Rising Moon”, from 1935. Carl Tolpo was born in Ludington, Michigan in 1901. During the course of his career, he established his reputation as a portrait, genre, and landscape painter, as well as a portrait and figure sculptor. As a painter, his works in fine oil portraiture particularly include state portraits and landscape oil paintings of the western USA, mostly the Yellowstone Park region. His works are on display in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This beautiful 1935 painting shows a cowboy herding cattle in a field as the moon is rising over the mountains in the distance. The piece is signed "Tolpo 35 The Rising Moon". The artwork measures 12" by 15 3/4".