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Custer's Last Fight / Anheuser-Busch / Budweiser.

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Artist: OTTO BECKER (1890-1986) Size: 43 1/2 x 33 1/4 in./110.5 x 84.5 cm Twenty years after the Battle of Little Bighorn, Anheuser-Busch appropriated this image by Otto Becker to promote Budweiser, a beer founded the same year as the fight. Depicted center is General Custer, brandishing a saber and holding a gun. While the other officers appear in military uniform, both he and his brother are wearing fringed buckskin. The majority of the dead appear in the foreground, the most famous of which are noted in the text below. Also shown are the General's various medals and banners alongside a small scene of a Native American on horseback in front of a monument. The original painting was a gift by Anheuser-Busch to the Seventh Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry.

B/ Restored tears at edges & green boarder. Image very good.

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