ARTIST: William (Bill) Maughan (California, born 1946)
NAME: Who Will Back Down First
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Excellent. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 36 inches / 60 x 91 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Altermann Galleries, Santa Fe NM (has original gallery label on verso); Auctioneer: March In Montana, Date 2017-03-16, Lot 677
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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SKU#: 117273
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BIOGRAPHY:
William Maughan has been a Commercial Illustrator since 1973. A partial client list includes, General Motors Corporation, CBS Television, Wells Fargo Bank, Fenwick and Dreamworks. His Illustrations have also graced the pages of T.V. Guide, Cosmopolitan, Field and Stream, Boys Life, Yachting, and Golf Digest. He has created numerous paperback book covers for New American Library, Tor, Pinnacle, Avon, and Doubleday, as well as illustrated children's books for, Knopf, Oxford University Press, Dutton, and Crown publishers.His Fine Art career began in the early 1980s, creating Western Art and Civil War limited edition prints sold world wide. After a visit to France in 1987, he began to captivate a wide audience of collectors with his plein air landscape compositions in both Oil and Pastel. He is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Fine Art painting and Traditional Illustration at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California.