Paul Herzel Oil Painting on Canvas Western Genre Scene

Item Details

Paul Herzel
Untitled
oil
Signed

Paul Herzel (American; 1876 – 1956)
Untitled, early 20th century
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower right
36’ W x 30.25’ H

An early 20th-century oil painting on canvas of a western genre scene by listed American artist Paul Herzel (1876 – 1956). This work features some country men riding a horsedrawn wagon through a mountainous landscape, surprised by something that lies ahead of them. Signed to the lower right, this work remains unframed.

Paul Herzel was born in Germany and emigrated with his family to the U.S. at age seven. Having settled in St. Louis, he studied at the St. Louis Art School and began creating sketches, paintings, and sculptural models inspired by the animals he saw at the Forest Park Zoo. After traveling abroad, he moved to New York and studied sculpture at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. In New York, his interest in animals and wildlife continued, as he created artwork inspired by his frequent visits to the Central Park Zoo. Many of Herzel’s sculptural designs have been sold and reproduced by companies such as Pompeiian Bronze; his original work has been collected by the New York Zoological Society and the Moscow Museum of Modern Western Arts, among other institutions.

Condition

- stins and accretion scattered throughout painting; long drip stain present near right edge of painting; paint loss and rubbing along painting edges; faint scratch marks throughout surface; canvas has lost some tension over stretcher bars.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC471-024