Franklin, Ernest

[Cowboy Santa Claus with Reindeer.] Original watercolor artwork, produced for Ernie Bulow’s Buffalo Medicine Press Christmas cards.

[New Mexico]: Ernest Franklin, [circa 1990]. Artwork. SIGNED by the artist within the image at the bottom right corner. Original watercolor artwork on fine paper, measuring 21.5" x 29.5" / 55cm x 75cm. Clean, bright, and sharp. Edges of paper ever so slightly curling. Near Fine. Item #70745

This original watercolor was produced for a series of Christmas cards published by Ernie Bulow's Buffalo Medicine Press, which was based in Gallup, New Mexico.

Prize-winning Navajo artist Ernest Franklin (1942-2010) illustrated Tony Hillerman's Navajo mysteries for years. He was from Twin Lakes, New Mexico. He grew up traditionally, herding sheep and tending to the family's livestock. Franklin began drawing at an early age. He worked in many different mediums, including traditional Navajo silversmithing, rawhide braiding and leather carving, both welded and cast sculpture, ceramic pieces, pencil, oil, conte crayon and pen and ink, however it is his lively, colorful watercolors of cowboy scenes that were his personal favorites. (Reference: University of New Mexico University Libraries: https://ehillerman.unm.edu/taxonomy/term/109#sthash.NvdIRTIo.dpbs).

Price: $1,250.00