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Clarence Ellsworth Indian Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
Clarence Ellsworth Indian Painting
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Title is Fast Whirlwind Sioux. Oil on Board. Comes with original sales receipt dated 1949. Biography of Fast Whirlwind written on back by Ellsworth. 13 1/2" by 15 5/8" framed. Clarence Arthur Ellsworth (1885 - 1961) was active/lived in California, Nebraska. Clarence Ellsworth is known for Frontier genre, horse, portrait. Clarence Arthur Ellsworth was born in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1885 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He was a premature frontier baby, born in the back room of his father's drug store, rubbed with whiskey and warmed in the oven. He grew up witnessing the end of the horse drawn Westward migration. Self taught as a painter, he was a newspaper artist for ten years in Denver. While in Denver, he received commissions from Eastern magazines for covers and illustrations on Western subjects. In addition he made twenty-five cent portraits for tourists at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs and worked on sport illustrations.