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Accession #	2015.36
Artist	Gifford Reynolds Beal
Title	Montebanks
Date	1936
Medium	Oil on Masonite
Dimensions	42 x 60 in. (106.7 x 152.4 cm) framed: 52 x 70 x 3 in. (132.1 x 177.8 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line	Gift of the Estate of Gifford Beal, Courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries
Location	Visible Storage: Case 15, Screen M (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: Throughout his career, Gifford Reynolds Beal painted subjects that celebrated American leisure pursuits in the decades between the two World Wars. In keeping with the extraordinary popularity of public rodeos during the Depression era, here the artist took on the theme of rodeo roughriders. The dynamism of the scene, in which two men help a third off a bucking horse, is enhanced by Beal’s brushy application of paint and use of bold lines.