RL & Dorothy Holder photos from Foleys Houston Box...
digression: "Wild Horse Wranglers"
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"Wild Horse Wranglers" - as I was saying relative to the family photographs taken on 01SEP47...
I remember sitting on "Grandma Waggoner's" [that is my Great Grandma Waggoner] front porch steps and coloring mainly using my favorite two colors, black and red. Also while
visiting her we did jigsaw puzzles and one day she gave me a puzzle with horses titled "Wild Horse Wranglers" - I was a happy kid that day - I liked that puzzle a lot... still do
- still have that puzzle (and the box it came in), it's framed and hanging on the wall behind me as I type these notes on the computer, it's up for grabs by any of
the kids in case any one of them have any sentimental affinity for it or just like horses...
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view full size image: click here... photograph by Russell Holder 
view full size image: click here... photograph by Russell Holder
The Guild Picture Puzzle "Wild Horse Wranglers" is from the work of Olaf Wieghorst (1899-1988),
he was at one time an acrobat, trick rider, cavalryman, cowboy, mounted policeman, and one of
the greatest western artists ever; known as the "Dean of Western Artists" he is placed in a class
with Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.
Would you like to know more about Olaf Wieghorst... go to wieghorst.com
wieghorst.com privides photographs of Olaf Wieghorst and numerous web pages displaying his
artistic works, including some of which are for sale; and, if purchasing an Olaf Wieghorst
painting or print is what you are interested in you can also search for them on ebay.com.
Among the web pages at wieghorst.com is the following "Mustang Drive" page:
- http://www.wieghorst.com/calendar/mustang_drive.html
wieghorst.com/calendar/mustang_drive.html
... and, reformated to fit within this page:
Olaf Wieghorst
From a Collection of Calendar
Art
and Commercial Art Prints
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Mustang
Drive
Size: 4 1/2"
x 5"
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This action packed art depicts a cowboy driving wild mustangs down
a steep ravine. It was used as theback cover for the "Zane Grey's
Western Magazine," May - June 1947. Inside the magazine the back
cover is refered to as "Wild Horses." A Guild Picture Puzzle was also
produced using this painting titled "Wild-Horse Wranglers."
Sizes I have found:
4 1/2 x 5 inches
15 1/2 x 18 inches
I am not sure of the title of the painting
for this book cover.
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Presented By
Spidy
Quality Publishing
Publishers of
"A Collectors Guide to the
Prints of Olaf Wieghorst"
email: spidy007@cox.net
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From: Russell Holder [mailto:russellholder@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 12:52 PM
To: spidy007@cox.net
Subject: Wild-Horse Wranglers / Mustang Drive
Howdy,
Refering to http://www.wieghorst.com/calendar/mustang_drive.html
Great Olaf Wieghorst website!
Do you know if there exist any prints of this for sale?
Thanks and kind regards,
Russell Holder
russellholder@earthlink.net
view un-photoshopped cropped original image: click here... photoshopped photograph by Russell Holder
Subject: RE: Wild-Horse Wranglers / Mustang Drive
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 18:51:13 -0700
From: James Drye
To: russellholder@earthlink.net
Greetings Russell;
This was a calendar print and a puzzle. No large prints were made.
Olaf painted around 1600 oil paintings. About 120 were published
as prints and maybe 70 or 80 as calendars and puzzles. I have
enclosed a page from my calendar art book and a picture of the
calendar print.
Regards;
Jim Drye
... photograph by Jim Drye
... photograph by Jim Drye
Subject: Re: Wild-Horse Wranglers / Mustang Drive
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 20:26:21 -0700
From: Russell Holder
To: James Drye
WOW! Thank you very much for the reply and the images. Now I see why
I could not see a signature on the puzzle image, but, the calendar
image contained more of the original work and it was just a little
further down below the scrub bush. It would have been cool if my great
grandmother had had the calendar and thought to give it to me also,
but reckon I was about 5 to 10 years after that time.
Thanks again,
Rusl
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