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1899 Viborg, Denmark - 1988. Known for: Western-Indian-genre, horses.
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned... Read full biography
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his... Read full biography
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a... Read full biography
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried... Read full biography
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArt for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Editor: Spanierman Gallery64 pages (color)A Collectors Guide to the Prints of Olaf Wieghorst
2001Drye, James; Roy Wieghorst250 pages (color)Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001Editors, Art of the West88 pages (color)Recounting the Old West: Gallery Selections-Thomas Nygard Gallery
2000Tierney, Curtis (Editor)44 pages (color)Select Works: Fine American and European Paintings
1999
(Exhibition catalog)Caldwell, Joseph S III & IV20 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesMaster Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)223 pages (color)Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997Boehme, Sarah E78 pages (color)Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997Southwest Art128 pagesMaster Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993Southwest Art64 pagesThe Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesArt of the Golden West
1990Axelrod, Alan418 pages (color)American Western Art
1989Rockwell Museum84 pages (color)History of Western American Art
1987Hassrick, Royal B192 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesAmerican Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985Krantz, Les347 pages (color)The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Marlor, Clark S600 pagesPaintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds273 pages (color)Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art
1983Foxley, William200 pages (color)Wieghorst: Dean of Western Painters
1982Renner, Ginger; Martin Peterso0 pages (color)Contemporary Western Artists
1982Samuels, Peggy and Harold608 pages (color)California Artists 1935-1956
1981McCall, Dewitt Clinton III212 pages (color)The Cowboy
1981
(Exhibition catalog)San Diego Museum of Art89 pages (color)Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition Petersen Galleries
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Stern, Jean124 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel730 pagesPaintings from the McKee Foundation
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Phoenix Art Museum36 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesWestern Painting Today
1975Hassrick, Royal B175 pages (color)Olaf Wieghorst A Retrospective Exhibition
1974
(Exhibition catalog)National Cowboy Hall of Fame74 pages (color)The Renaisance of Western Art
1974Ward, Johanna Walsh144 pages (color)The West Remembered
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Baird, Joseph Armstrong88 pages (color)A Collection of Western Art
1973Brinckerhoff, Sidney57 pages (color)Bronzes of the American West
1973Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)429 pages (color)The Southwest The Land and the People
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Phoenix Art Museum40 pagesAmon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972Amon Carter Museum600 pagesThe Cowboy in American Prints
1972Meigs, John (intro)184 pagesRendezvous of Western Art, 1972
1972
(Exhibition catalog)Paladin, Vivian A64 pages (color)Harmsen's Western Americana
1971Harmsen, Dorothy212 pages (color)Olaf Wieghorst
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Saddleback Western Art Gallery20 pages (color)The West and Walter Bimson Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture
1971Steadman, William E223 pages (color)Olaf Wieghorst
1969Reed, William196 pages (color)The Cowboy in Art
1968Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward)242 pages (color)The McKee Collection of Paintings
1968
(Exhibition catalog)El Paso Museum of Art66 pages (color)Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art
1964
(Exhibition catalog)Read Mullan Gallery40 pages (color)Widening Horizons: Painters of the Western Desert
1952Ainsworth, Edward97 pages