Storage Find,Vintage 60"x38" Western Painting Signed

I got this beautiful painting out of one of my storage auction.Measure 60"x38" with out frame.Signed but I can't make out the name,look like "Po or Patton".Any idea who this artist is.

 

Looks like Patton to me.

 

Make that 2 for Patton.

 

I three it.

Debora

 

Thank you all so much! another question.Anybody know who patton is?

 

In which state did you find it? Anything on the back?

Debora

 

I got it in a storage auction in Tennessee,nothing on the back that I can see.

 

I don't know a Patton artist, but it would not surprise me to find that this image was used as a western novel illustration, or possibly a copy of same.

 

Thanks so much,still looking!

 

It is very illustrative. There is a cowboy painter named Patton but yours doesn't appear to be his work. It may be the work of a non-professional.

Debora

 

That's definitely close!

 

Looks very close,I will chek it out.Thanks

 

The only thing about Ernie Patton is that he was born around 1940 and your picture looks to be older in style. That might not mean anything.

 

I think that's a strong possibility. Obviously someone who enjoys painting and works with a number of subjects -- landscapes, religious, portraits. The painting is among the types of subjects I would expect a man born c. 1940 and raised on cowboy & Indian movies/tv shows would find attractive. To my eye, the frame looks 1970s.

Debora

 

Thanks you all for your help.My painting is in fact Ernie Patton,sadly he passed last week

 

Thanks for updating this thread. Sorry to hear that he is gone now.