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Original Olaf C. Seltzer Indian War Party Sketch

Currency:USD Category:Art / General - Fine Art Prints Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
Original Olaf C. Seltzer Indian War Party Sketch
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Original Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877 - 1957) Indian War Party Working Pencil Sketch, visual measures 6.5'' x 10'' and a total measurement of 16.25'' x 12.5'', framed, under glass, and matted, there is authentication on the back by Dick Flood stating that he purchased it in the early '50's from the artist himself, FYI: ''Olaf and his mother arrived in New York on July 12, 1892 from Denmark and boarded the transcontinental train. Five days later they disembarked in Great Falls, Montana. Olaf worked as a cowboy his first year in Montana, supplying horses for the Yellowstone Stage Lines. The next year he was an apprentice machinist for the Great Northern Railroad, then a locomotive repairman. At age 44 he was laid off by the railroad company and took up painting full time. Before going nearly blind he had completed over 2,500 paintings. By 1936, he returned to Montana where he lived for the rest of his life.''