Clark Kelley Price (1945- ), Montana Farewell, oil on canvas, 30 x 24, signed lower left: ©clark Kelley Price (artist's cipher) CA

"The cowboy is a lover of good horses and it is never an easy thing to lose one. My painting depicts a real incident that happened on a Roundup in Montana back in the early 1970s. Snow had come to the high country along the Continental Divide and one of our riders named Bill was gathering cows alone up in Ant Hill Creek when suddenly his horse went down and died of an apparent heart attack. We were riding in another part of the basin with the herd and when Bill did not show up to meet us, the boss went to locate him, only to find him on foot carrying his saddle.The two of them rode out together on the boss's horse. I never forgot the incident and finally decided to pay tribute to Bill and his horse in this painting. It's a part of cowboy life that was hard for me to paint but meaningful nonetheless."
Clark Kelley Price

Provenance: From the Artist