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Clarence Basil Cuts the Rope Oil on Board Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Clarence Basil Cuts the Rope Oil on Board Painting
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25 1/2" by 29 1/2" framed. 16" by 20" unframed. Clarence Basil Cuts the Rope (1935 - 2000) was active/lived in Montana. Clarence Cuts the Rope is known for Native American, landscape painting. Excerpts from a Blaine County Journal Article by Steve Edwards published on May 24, 2017 Wells Fargo asked to donate Cuts The Rope painting to Hays center A number of locals, including the son of famed Hays-based artist Clarence Cuts The Rope, have asked Wells Fargo executives to donate a large painting, done by Cuts The Rope, to be hung in the new Hays community center when it is completed. The painting was one of two commissioned by the bank in 1982 (it was Bank of Montana at that time). Clarence Cuts The Rope died in 2000. Ada Brekke, of Chinook, was a bank employee at the time. She said, "Clarence did two paintings, one of a buffalo hunt, and the other a winter scene set in Mission Canyon. Because there wasn't room for both painting to be displayed on the ground floor, the hunting scene went upstairs and the winter scene was hung on the east wall of the main lobby." The winter scene was still there when the branch closed last week. Brekke said in the early 1990's a bank manager asked Clarence Cuts The Rope if he would trade the painting of the buffalo hunt for two smaller paintings that could be hung in the manager's office on the ground floor. Clarence agreed and the painting of the hunt was taken to be displayed in a tribal building at the Fort Belknap Agency. Two smaller paintings were still in the manager's office when the branch closed. Clarence's son, Catcher Cuts The Rope, heard of the branch closing and began efforts to keep the winter scene painting in Blaine County. He believed, "When bank officials were discussing the closing of the Chinook branch they weren't thinking about what they would do with the large winter painting in the lobby." Tara Overcast, the Lead Teller who had been overseeing the branch for the last few months it operated, said she understood that there were plans to crate the painting and send it to St. Louis for storage. Brekke and other locals got involved in the effort to help Catcher keep the painting in the area.