"Apaches" is oil on canvas, in fair condition, dirty with some oil cracking. It is signed "G Dabich" lower right, measures 18x26. Total dimensions are 26x34x3. George Dabich was born in 1922 in East Los Angeles, CA, and moved to be with his father in Alberhill, CA where he grew up. In 1946, Dabich joined a friend heading off to Wyoming, where he took a job as a wrangler. After the wrangling job fell through, Dabich headed over to Cody, Wyoming where he took a job as a guide for an outfitting company. It was Dabich's guiding career that ultimately shaped his life as an artist. On a hunt one morning in 1958, he went out to retrieve a couple of picketed horses, where an accident resulted in a broken leg. To combat the boredom of recovery he took up sketching and painting. "Breaking that leg was the best thing that ever happened to me," Dabich said. (He also married his girlfriend, recovering at her place.) “. . . his art is wonderfully detailed and accurate - a product of his intimacy with the wilderness and ranching gained through his many years of guiding and wrangling.” (from askArt)

fair condition, dirty with some oil cracking

11 lb