This is a wonderful painting from West Virginia born New York artist William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955). Features a cowboy wrangling a steer. Unframed and measures 18" x 22" and signed in lower left.

Leigh was born on a farm in West Virginia in 1855. He began art school at the age of 14 at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (Maryland Institute for the College of Art), then traveled to Germany to study at the Royal Academy in Munich.? He traveled abroad for 12 years, returning to New York and began painting and illustrating for magazines.? After traveling to the American west in 1906, he then opened a studio in New York City. Carl Akeley invited Leigh to travel to Africa in 1926, and upon his return began illustrating books, one based on his travels to Africa and later The Western Pony.? He also illustrated for popular magazines, painted Yellowstone and The Grand Canyon, but his interest was primarily Native Americans. He passed away in New York in 1955.

Lots of surface chipping and scratches, will most like need restoration.