Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Lonesome Cowboy"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Lonesome Cowboy by Ruth Goldsborough (American; 1918-2013). The work depicts a cowboy seated on the porch of an undertaker’s office with two horses waiting patiently. The artist’s signature is seen to lower right corner of painting. An informative plaque is to the center margin of the frame. The piece is presented without glass in a gold-toned wooden frame with wire hanger to the verso.

Art educator and painter Ruth Goldsborough began her formal art training under to tutelage of painter, print maker, and educator George Jo Mess (American, 1898 – 1962) at Indiana University. She also studied at the John Heron School of Art. After her husband’s death in 1975 the artist traveled throughout Arizona painting scenes of the American West. Her work can be viewed in private collections and institutions including the Cherokee Museum in Oklahoma. At the time of her death an Education Fund for the Hendersonville Art League was created in her honor.

Condition

- wear to corners of frame; dust present throughout; loss of gesso to lower right corner of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 29.5" W x 23.5" H.

Item #

17DCC191-040