Description: Watercolor on paper painting depicting two muscular horned brown oxen resting on the beach with four fishermen. Moored sailboats, and an ancient city's walls in the background. Oxen were used to pull boats on shore and deliver quantities of fish Likely the Mediterranean. Signed Louderback lower right.

History: Walter S. Louderback was born on February 3, 1887, in Valparaiso, Indiana, and--like Dean Cornwell--studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He illustrated stories for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Hearst's International, and other popular magazines. Many of those stories were also printed in hardbound editions with Louderback's illustrations. Readers of the 1910s and '20s would have been well acquainted with the art of Walt Louderback, as he illustrated books by one of the most popular authors of the day, James Oliver Curwood. In addition to being an artist, Louderback also taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Patterson (a student) and John Clymer (a boyhood admirer) were among the illustrators of a younger generation influenced by him. Today, Louderback is a much under-appreciated artist. During the 1920s, Louderback lived in Europe and delivered his assignments to New York by surface vessel. He also experimented with modernist and Cubist painting. As war loomed, Louderback left Europe with his family in May 1939. He died at a sanitarium in Socorro, New Mexico, on October 15, 1941.

Provenance: N/A

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 7 | Height(in) = 27.25 | Width(in) = 30.5 | Depth(in) = 0.75

Size of Artwork(in): 19.5 x 25.25 Sight

Artist Name: Walter Louderback

Medium: Paper, paint.

Circa: C. 1930

Upon inspection no flaws observed.