Featured Help w/ID Western Art Oil Painting Stampeding Buffalo

hi everyone. i found this painting a couple of days ago in a Goodwill. i got all excited when i started researching it because the signature, "Cross," corresponds with a fairly important Western artist Henry H. Cross. i thought i'd found a lost masterpiece. i'm now pretty sure this isn't the work of Henry Cross. i can't find another example of his work online where he didn't sign his paintings "H H Cross." also, it really doesn't look like any other work of his that i've found online. this painted, frame and all measures 32"x26".

anyway, i'm hoping to figure out who did this, but also, i would like some input as to how old this painting might be. when i found this it had a cardboard cover on the backside. i believe that's why the canvas is so clean. i removed that to get pics of the backside, as well as the corners. you can see someone attached quarter-round wood molding to the back edge of the stretcher and the frame. i'm wondering how old is the frame or what era is it from? any help will be greatly appreciated...thanks, jim

 

very nice..

 

thank you. i thought it was nice too. without an attribution, though, its value is probably halved. it did just occur to me it could be C. Ross. i'll look into that tomorrow.

 

Jim-This gives Us all hope,there's still one decent Goodwill left in the U.S.A.

 

I really like it too.

 

i got lucky. there's still good stuff showing up at Goodwills from time to time, but you have to be there the minute it hits the floor. this painting had just come out. also, i'm still coming up goose eggs on figuring out who the artist was. i'm gonna call the Gilcrease Museum on monday and see if i can talk to anyone there. they have the largest collection of Henry Cross's art and i want to see if there are any examples with him signing the paintings with just his last name.

 

Very cool. One can imagine the movement of the bison. Nice find!

 

is that number right on the front page right, over a thousand people have looked at this? i'm still hoping for some input into how old this might be, or when this style of frame was popular.

 

1000 views is not 1000 people..... but still a lot !!

I would not put much stock in the frame....... for a time line..... unless u can identify the maker....and even then......frames come and go.

 

Have looked at this a few times and compared to other paintings of buffalos. Found one somewhat similer but really no relation to this one. My gut feeling is that this is by a talented amateur or regional art fair circuit artist. Framing says 60s, give or take. Is the canvas tacked or stapled?

 

as i stated, someone attached this painting to the frame with quarter round molding. i've never come across this before. it's impossible to see if the canvas is stapled or nailed without damaging the molding and possibly the stretcher or the frame. i tried to loosen it a little but because of the way it's nailed in two directions, into the stretcher and into the frame, the only way to even pull it back a little to get a peek, is gonna cause damage. it's seriously on there. also, when this was found there was cardboard stapled to the backside, completely covering the canvas. i think that's why canvas is so clean and white. there are a few areas of craquelure on the painting and these show through on the canvas. i was thinking this might have been an illustration. in davenports there are 5 or 6 listed artists named Cross that were illustrators. unfortunately, they're not terribly important artists and google doesn't show many examples of their work for comparison.