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AMERICAN OLD WEST, HISTORY OF YGARTUA’S Gallery, where he painted the natives from the area, the Hopis, the

EQUESTRIAN PAINTINGS Navajos, the Desert People, Sonora Mexico. But we were in cowboy
country, so once again he was commissioned to do studies of the

The first time Paul painted a Western Series was in the early 70’s Great West Scottsdale known as The West’s most Western Town.
in Vancouver, when his Father-In-Law decided to open the Apollo In the 80’s he was commissioned to paint Napoleon and his cavalry,
Gallery on West Broadway (April 1, 1970). then in 1981 when we lived in Waikiki for nearly two years (Anton,
our son, born in 1981 in Waikiki) he was commissioned to do four

A local client commissioned him to do several copies of C.M. large paintings, a small mural for the Rodeo Club there.

Russell, (early 1900’s) the famous American artist of the American
Old West (the cowboy artist). Once again, even though he had never Then in 2001 he was commissioned to do a mural for The Rodeo,
entertained the idea of this subject at the time, he approached it Cloverdale, BC. During the 80’s he was commissioned to do the

and just like that, it was as if he had been painting the Old West Thoroughbred’s from an Equestrian Club in Ottawa. We made
for years. (we have not been able to locate these photos of this contact in 1986/87 during our sojourn in Quebec City with Colleen

Russell Series) Then again in the late 70’s, Paul was resident artist in Fogherty at her Ottawa Gallery, Ygartua was represented by Studio
Scottsdale Arizona (Camelback, La Posada Inn) at the De La Mano Colleen for the following ten years until she retired.

THE OLD WEST, REMINGTON, 1981 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 84X144 IN. | 213X365 CM.

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