Lot 220
  • 220

William R. Leigh 1866-1955

Estimate
125,000 - 175,000 USD
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Description

  • William Robinson Leigh
  • A Fighting Cyclone
  • signed W.R. Leigh, inscribed ©, and dated 1946, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 22 in.
  • (71.1 by 55.9 cm)

Provenance

David de Francesca, California
Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, A Retrospective Exhibition 1906-1953 by W.R. Leigh, April-May 1953, no. 15
Scottsdale, Arizona, Biltmore Galleries, Masters of the West

Literature

William C. Foxley, Frontier Spirit, Catalogue of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, 1983, p. 56, pl. 42