(Loading the White Mule) by Howard Everett Smith
(Loading the White Mule)
Howard Everett Smith
Title
(Loading the White Mule)
Artist
Year
c. 1945
Technique
lithograph
Image Size
12 x 14" image
Signature
pencil lower right
Edition Size
not stated; perhaps 25
Annotations
Reference
Paper
ivory Warren's Oldestyle wove
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
ROCA106
Price
$300.00
Description
Howard E. Smith is known for his American genre paintings, many of which were done for Harper's Magazine. After moving to Carmel, California in the 1940's he began focusing on horse and western subjects and working in lithography, most of which were done in small editions. In this large lithograph 2 cowboys setting out to the wilderness struggle with a white mule, which is intent on not having a larger load than it already has. regionalist