Paul Herzel Oil Painting on Canvas of a Bucking Horse

Item Details

Paul Herzel
Untitled
oil on canvas
Signed

Paul Herzel (American; 1876 – 1956)
Untitled, early 20th century
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower right
36.25’ W x 29.25’ H

An oil painting on canvas by listed American artist Paul Herzel (1876 – 1956). This work features a cowboy on a bucking horse while other cowboys stand aside and watch, surrounded by a mountainous farm landscape. Signed to the lower right, the painting remains unframed.

Condition

- accretion and stains scattered throughout; color fading and scratches throughout surface; small spots of paint loss throughout and along edges; canvas has lost tension on stretcher; craquelure scattered throughout painting.

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.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC471-038