Fine Western pictorialist photograph by Arthur Dailey (1893-1973).. Silver gelatin photograph. Framed. Signed in the margin, under the image, lower right in pencil “Arthur Dailey”. Titled “The Cavoy” (an old cowboy term for group of stallions). Bears a 1930’s label from the “Joseph McKeown Gallery” on the reverse. Depicting a heard of horses running towards the viewer. Taken at the Eaton Ranch in Wolf, Wyoming, circa 1930. Arthur Aloysius "Pete" Dailey spent nearly sixty years (1912-1972) returning to Eatons' Ranch and became famous for his Western cowboy photographs. This is one of his earlier images.

SIZE: Photograph - 6” x 9.75” (15.5 cm x 25 cm)

NOTES:Arthur “Pete” Dailey (1893-1973). American artist and photographer. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. From 1919 to 1973, Dailey photographed clouds and dust, light and horses on the Eatons' Ranch in Wolf, Wyoming where he held every job from waiter to wrangler and later was a seasoned dude. Charlie Russell was a frequent visitor to the Ranch and Pete Daily struck up a friendship with him. It was in the Bighorn Mountains that Dailey began shooting from the saddle. Photography was only a hobby then. Upon graduating from the University of Illinois, Dailey joined Eastman Kodak Company as a copywriter. When his boss saw the photographs that Arthur had taken, he transferred him to the photography department. It was there that Dailey learned and began to develop his extraordinary technique.In the late ‘30s, Arthur Dailey took charge of the massive advertising program for the Santa Fe Railway system. The records reveal many national awards won for his Santa Fe ads and billboards which were familiar throughout the country. Several years before he retired from the Santa Fe in 1963, Dailey began exhibiting his black and white photographs in international photographic salons on all continents. In 1963 he was made an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. A permanent exhibit of his photographs may be seen at the Sagebrush Community Art Center, Sheridan, Wyoming.

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Good condition with some small stains near the very bottom of the margin, which could be covered by a mat. Unopened - not examined out of the frame.