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| Arthur Burdett Frost (American, 1851-1928). Mulvaney's Muley Cow, Harper's Weekly |
An artist sets up his canvas in a cow pasture. What could possibly go wrong?
While the artist takes a nap under a tree, the cow sweeps her tail over the canvas and spreads the paint around.
Then she gives the canvas a few juicy licks.
The resulting painting wins the admiration from his friends—is it a victory for modern art?
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Frost's sly commentary is just one out of more than 300 lots in the upcoming Heritage Illustration Art auction in Dallas, which includes Gibson, Flagg, Elvgren, Loomis, Nagel, and Von Schmidt.
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Previously: A Stymied Artist by E.H. Shepard
3 comments:
Love.
The sense of business.
hmm these days the cartoonist would have the oow doing other things to the painting as well ! :)
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