ARTIST: Walter Popp (New York, 1920 - 2002)
TITLE: Cowboys on Horses
YEAR: 1976
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Some faint scratches/minor paint losses. Minor damages to corners. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 24 x 30 inches / 60 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 125072
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BIOGRAPHY:
Walter Robert Popp was born on May 19, 1920 in New York City. His biological father was Gustave Gutgemon (1860-1952), a German immigrant artist, who had a significant career as a muralist and instructor of architectural detail at the Pratt Institute. His unwed mother, Kathe Popp, was born 1880 in Austria and was trained as a professional cook. In 1909 she immigrated to the U.S. on the S.S. Amerika and settled in New York City. She found work as an artist in Gutgemon's busy workshop, where decorative designs of flowers, birds and animals were created for stylish New York furniture companies.By 1940 Walter Popp worked briefly as a commercial artist and sold freelance illustrations to pulp magazines, but he soon entered the U.S. Army on October 10, 1942 and served in the Medical Corps in Europe as a TEC-5 during WWII. His enlistment papers record him as being twenty-two years old, single, five-eleven, and 151 pounds.