
Olaf Carl Wieghorst(1899-1988)Stopping a Runaway 18 x 14in
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Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988)
signed, dated and inscribed 'Ptl. Olaf Wieghorst 1930' (lower right) and inscribed with title (lower center)
oil on canvas
18 x 14in
Painted in 1930.
Footnotes
Provenance
Richard Corbyn, Amarillo, Texas.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1979.
Literature
S.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 42, illustrated.
Stopping a Runaway is a rare early work depicting a mounted patrolman apprehending a suspect, drawn from Olaf Wieghorst's own colorful life. Wieghorst joined the New York City mounted police at the age of twenty-four. Being a mounted patrolman suited him, as he was an accomplished stunt rider and stockhand growing up in Denmark. He was assigned to a remount station where he trained horses and new riders.1 After a twenty year career with the New York Police Department, he retired in 1944 and settled in Southern California.
1 Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Olaf Wieghorst, San Diego, California, 1976, p. 5.