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Ferdinand Burgdorff
American (1881-1975), O/B, Image: 13 1/2 (H) x 10 1/2 (W), Titled: Taos Man, Dated 1926, Signed

This is a wonderful oil painting by well-known Western artist Ferdinand Burgdorff. Ferdinand Burgdorff studied at the Cleveland School of Art and in Paris with Rene Menard and Florence Este. In 1907, he headed West with the intention of becoming a desert landscape painter. He lived in box cars with railroad builders on the stretch of line between Yuma and Calexico and traveling by wagon or horseback, accompanied surveyors on many trips into the desert. Of this time he wrote: "There were such exciting things to see and paint, undisturbed by a single human within miles."

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