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Livestock paintings such as this often depicted a person's most prized animals shown at their best - and it's easy …
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Livestock paintings such as this often depicted a person's most prized animals shown at their best - and it's easy to see why this bull was chosen! He is a solid, well-built bull with a thick, heavily wrinkled neck and short forward-curving horns, physique on full display with his pristine white coat, pink skin, and white hooves. He may represent a Cumberland White, a variety of Shorthorn that gained popularity in the early 1900s. These all-white bulls were highly desirable at the time as, when crossed with a black Galloway cow, they produce a Blue Grey, a vigorous, easily recognized, and in-demand roan-colored cow sought for its abilities as a suckler cow in areas with poor grazing. Since the color does not breed true, a white bull as pretty as this one would have been something to be proud of!
This painting is dated and signed in the corner, 1913. E.S. Reeser. Eugene Reeser (1862-1922) was a painter based in Reading, Pennsylvania, known for landscapes, portraiture, and paintings of animals such as this. The bull is painted on a thin board approximately 14 inches wide and 10 inches tall, backed with a piece of paperboard and framed in an ornate wood and gesso frame to 17 7/8 inches wide and 14 inches tall with wire to hang.
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- Dimensions
- 18ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 14ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Portraiture
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Animals
- Period
- 1910s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paint
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Excellent antique condition: age darkening as expected, corner wear to board just visible in top right corner, minor gaps at … moreExcellent antique condition: age darkening as expected, corner wear to board just visible in top right corner, minor gaps at frame corners, wear to ornate gesso frame decoration as shown. less
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