Marjorie Reed
(1915-1996)
"Ride 'M Cowboy!"
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right with the alias: Harvey Day; titled along the canvas overlap, verso
8" H x 10" W
Provenance: Private Collection, San Diego, CA
Sold: John Moran Auctioneers, Pasadena, CA, "California & American Fine Art," June 15, 2010, Lot 157

Other Notes: By the time she was 14, artist Marjorie Reed+was already working as a graphic artist alongside her father at Mission Graphics. The focus of most early Marjorie Reed paintings and sketches were the San Gabriel Mountains, done in ink or oil paint. In her 20is she began studying under Jack Wilkinson Smith who lived in an area known as Artistis Alley, a stretch of homes where affluent artists like Norman Rockwell lived. Artist Marjorie Reed was known for her paintings of the Butterfield Overland Stage Route that ran through California. While creating her 20 paintings in the series she would often camp out on location to create true-to-life pieces. Other popular subjects in Marjorie Reed's paintings for sale are scenes of western life involving cowboys, horses, or the Navajo people. Reed sometimes signed her works with a male alias. Male names she was known to use include Harvey Day, as here, and Fred Day.

Visual: Overall good condition. Dust accumulation commensurate with age. Stretcher bar crease showing slightly along the upper edge.

Blacklight: No evidence of restoration.

Frame: 12" H x 14" W x 2.5" D Condition reports are offered as a courtesy and are typically published in Moran's catalogue or can be made available upon request. The absence of a condition report does not imply that an item is free from defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of others. Buyers are responsible for determining to their own satisfaction the true nature and condition of any lot prior to bidding. Though buyers are not legally required to inspect lots prior to purchase, failure to do so may constitute a waiver of complaint that an item was not delivered in a condition equal to the existent condition at the auction.