Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877-1957)
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Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877-1957)

Buffalo Scout

Details
Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877-1957)
Buffalo Scout
signed with monogrammed initials 'OCS' (lower right)
watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board
17 ¾ x 8 ½ in. (45.1 x 21.6 cm.)
Provenance
Richard Flood, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1977, lot 81.
Jim Fowler’s Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1978.

Literature
M.S. Kennedy, The Life and Times of Olaf C. Seltzer, 1877 to 1957: Meticulous Montana Frontier Artist, exhibition catalogue, Helena, Montana, 1960, p. 5, illustrated.
Jim Fowler’s Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1978, p. 37, illustrated.
Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994, p. 73.
Exhibited
Helena, Montana, The Historical Society of Montana, The Life and Times of Olaf C. Seltzer, 1877 to 1957: Meticulous Montana Frontier Artist, June-July 1960, no. 68.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection, June 17-August 21, 1994.

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