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Frederick Albert Olds Oil on Canvas Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
Frederick Albert Olds Oil on Canvas Painting
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Title is Indian Brave. 20" by 24" unframed, 27 1/2" by 31 1/2" framed. Frederick Olds (1916 - 2005) is known for Painting. Frederick Albert Olds died at his home in Guthrie on April twenty fourth, 2005. Born to Dr. Frederick C. and Rena Olds on April 27, 1916 in Fremont, Ohio, Fred grew up in Warsaw, Indiana. He served as a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps in North Africa and Europe for four years in World War II. He was educated to teach and coach at Ohio Wesleyan University and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Columbia University. In 1949 Fred married Flora Anne Conner in Port Washington, New York where he was teaching art and coaching football and track. In 1950 the young couple established a home in Warsaw where Fred taught art and coached in the public schools. Fred painted every day. His artwork depicted his love of horses, cowboys, Indians and the West. Achieving success in art shows in the Midwest and Southwest, he moved his family to Wynnewood where he fell in love with Oklahoma when he taught Oklahoma History and art in the Wynnewood public schools. He taught art in the Yukon public schools. The family moved to Weatherford where Fred taught various art classes to student-teachers at Southwestern State (College) University to teach art. He helped to set up the College Rodeo program. Fred was a foundation breeder of Longhorn Cattle and won four national championships with his Appaloosa horses. In 1972 the family moved to Edmond then Guthrie where Fred was engaged to rehabilitate the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library. He served as director there for fourteen years and his paintings and sculptures are exhibited worldwide, in museums, churches, universities, on public grounds and in private collections of neighbors, statesmen and celebrities. He painted more than one hundred pictures of the Oklahoma Land Runs. In 1996 his 'Horses from the Sea' was unveiled in the Red Earth Indian Center. Fred wrote poems describing most of his paintings and in 1999 he earned the Westerners International Poet's Award for his volume, 'A Drop in the Bucket.' Fred Olds was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and two brothers. He is survived by his beloved wife of fifty-five years, Flo, Guthrie and their four children, Kathleen Olds Elliott, Guthrie, Laura Olds Towler, Oklahoma City, Erich and Debby Olds, Wellston, Dr. Patrick and Cindy Gray, Ponca City, eleven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one sister, Janet Miller, Escondido, California. Fred Olds, artist, teacher, poet, dedicated and revered educator, will be remembered by a multitude of students and friends. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Southern Baptist Church, Guthrie, with the Reverend David Nolen officiating.
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