Lot 24087: DICK LOPEMAN (American d.1988) and AMERICAN SCHOOL

DICK LOPEMAN (American d.1988) and AMERICAN SCHOOL
Dick Lopeman
Indian portrait, c.1976
Offset print
10in. x 7.5in. (sight size)
Signed lower right: Dick Lopeman

Dick Lopeman was raised in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. His formal training was at the American Academy of Art and Lopeman also studied privately with John Bruce and Charles Cross. Lopeman received a commission from the San Bernadino County museum for a life size painting of Jedidiah Smith and has also done a poster for the 1980 Apaloosa Horse Show, as well as many Western themed prints. This realistic pencil portrait of a Native American has been signed, in pencil, by the artist below the printed signature.

American School illustrator
Indian rider in landscape
Oil on canvas
20in. x24in. (sight size)
Signed lower left: may read "Bounty", also has a chinese character-styled stamp signature

A lone Native American rides through a dust storm in this somber and evocative desert landscape.

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