Noontime

Artist Robert E. Lougheed (Canadian, 1910 - 1982, active in the United States)

Mediumoil on masonite

Dimensions20 1/2 × 26 1/4 inches (52.1 × 66.7 cm)
Frame: 26 3/4 × 32 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (67.9 × 82.6 × 3.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1999

Object number31.242.1

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextThe Cowboy Artists of America invited Lougheed (pronounced Loch – heed) to join their group in 1967. Four cowboy artists started the organization. Objectives were “To perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West as typified by the late Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and others; To insure authentic representations of the life of the West, as it was and is; . . . To conduct a trail ride and campout . . . once a year.” Lougheed chose to paint the people of the West today. He said, “The cowboy who rides his horse to work, the ones I know and paint, are just as interesting and exciting as those in the time of Russell and Remington.”

ProvenanceUnknown [1]; purchased August 18, 1999 through (Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. In a letter dated July 8, 1999, from Laura Finlay Smith, Director of Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, from whom this work was purchased, she states regarding this work: "It has come to us [the gallery] via a collection in Texas."

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