Guardian of the Trail

ClassificationsPaintings-oils

Artist Carl Oscar Borg (Swedish, 1879-1947)

Datec. 1930

Made AtUnited States, North America

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 27 3/4 x 37 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (70.5 x 95.9 x 4.4 cm)
Unframed: 19 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 in. (49.5 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm)

Credit LineMartha C. Stevens Memorial Art Collection

Object numberF7710

DescriptionCarl Oscar Borg was a Swedish immigrant whose art career was sponsored, for a time, by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, who was a San Francisco philanthropist and widow of George Hearst, a businessman in the mining industry. Although Borg painted some beautiful California landscapes, his best work deals with the desert and the native people of the American Southwest. Large tableaux showing multiple figures in pueblo settings are his most powerful and important works. The painting, "Guardian of the Trail" is executed in bland, impressionistic tones and shows a lone man in a vast and arid Southwestern space.

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