Title: 1904 Letter of US Cavalry illustrator Rufus Zogbaum Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: Zogbaum, R.[ufus].F.[airchild]. Autograph Letter Signed. New Rochelle, NY, Aug. 13, 1904. 5 x 7”, 2pp. To Mr. [Henry W.] Watrous, apologizing for the delay in his visit and “looking forward with much pleasant anticipation to a short outing with you.” Short ink note on verso of first page: “Property of Hildegarde Turle.” While less celebrated than Frederick Remington, Zogbaum (1849-1925), at the turn of the century, was considered the leading American illustrator of US Army life on the western frontier; his 1888 book, “Horse, Foot, and Dragoons”, now a classic of Cavalry adventure during the Indian wars, was followed, a decade later, by his “All Hands, Pictures of Life in the United States Navy”. Watrous, his correspondent, was a San Francisco-born artist who became an eminent New York portrait and landscape painter. And strangely enough, Hildegarde Turle, who later “owned” this letter, was a famous woman tennis player, who played at Wimbledon in the 1920s. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 247542
Title: 1904 Letter of US Cavalry illustrator Rufus Zogbaum Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: Zogbaum, R.[ufus].F.[airchild]. Autograph Letter Signed. New Rochelle, NY, Aug. 13, 1904. 5 x 7”, 2pp. To Mr. [Henry W.] Watrous, apologizing for the delay in his visit and “looking forward with much pleasant anticipation to a short outing with you.” Short ink note on verso of first page: “Property of Hildegarde Turle.” While less celebrated than Frederick Remington, Zogbaum (1849-1925), at the turn of the century, was considered the leading American illustrator of US Army life on the western frontier; his 1888 book, “Horse, Foot, and Dragoons”, now a classic of Cavalry adventure during the Indian wars, was followed, a decade later, by his “All Hands, Pictures of Life in the United States Navy”. Watrous, his correspondent, was a San Francisco-born artist who became an eminent New York portrait and landscape painter. And strangely enough, Hildegarde Turle, who later “owned” this letter, was a famous woman tennis player, who played at Wimbledon in the 1920s. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 247542
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