Oh, that poor, cold little calf!

Score indeed. It's wonderful!

great find! Congrats.. bet you'll be visiting that thrift store again!

Oh.. what energy in that painting! I love it. How big is it?

I love it - what a great find! Reminds me of Broke Back Mountain.

I love that, and think I've seen the print or maybe even the original somewhre before. We've visited a lot of western art galleries so who knows. Great score for you!

Great TS find!

That work is by a very accomplished painter, I'm happy that you found it and will treasure it.

I love it. It's very serene to me.
Great color palette, too.
What a fine score!

I'm gonna pop some tags. Only got twenty dollars in my pocket... Sorry couldn't resist! Made me think of the thrift shop song!

Oh & a great score!

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Lol kitchentime! I thought of that too.

Very nice print. Love the colors. Good find!

NSFW, but I like the lyrics and it's a great parody of the whole rap culture of excessive and conspicuous consumption. If I ever found a coat like that in a thrift store, I'd die happy!

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It's 30x36 as framed, about 22x18 image size. Definitely will add some presence to the wall ... but I need to decide where to put it.

Jim Reynolds was a working AZ cowboy, and it shows in the body language of the three main characters. This is the moment just before a cow either charges at the horse to defend her calf or the horse can intimidate her into backing off far enough to get the calf picked up.

The cow is in the classic "you gotta go through me to get my calf" guard posture. The horse is approaching on a diagonal to leave an escape route, ready to dodge. The cowboy has the rope ready to wave in her face to keep her away from the horse if necessary, and is balanced in the saddle in case the horse has to make a quick move.

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This one is one of his best. He captures the misery of working in a frog-drowning summer rain perfectly. To minimize the chances of getting hit by lightening, you get off the horse and squat on the ground and wait it out.

Here is a link that might be useful: Reynolds Bio -

Thank you for introducing me to a new artist! My grandpa grew up on a ranch in southern AZ so these prints remind me of him.

Now I know I've seen this art before! That second one is also familiar. I think his art must be in the Cody, WY museum we visited most recently. It's actually the 'Buffalo Bill Historical Center' but contains a wonderful art and sculpture museum full of Remington's, Russell's and apparently, Reynolds' art and sculptures. We spent all day there. DH could have spent all day just in the Winchester arms and gun section. Wonderful place to stop if you're on your way to Yellowstone.

lazygardens, thank you for explaining what we're seeing - I'm a southeastern tidewater girl, and know less than nothing about the life of the western plains. As you explain it, it becomes perfectly clear.

Isn't it interesting that even when you don't really know what's happening, you can still see the authenticity of the scene?

And I chuckled at the "frog-drowning" rain - a country boy I know calls those rains "frog stranglers," and that's the only time I'd ever heard it.

Great find. Maybe we'll see you on Antiques Roadshow. I love stories where someone has a great find from a thrift or dumpster diving. I love that the subject isn't the same old vase of flowers (of which I have a few!).

There are so few pictures I see that I like. I look and look and look, and in my price range (basically almost nothing), I find very little that I would want to look at day after day. I love yours.

Want to see one I found recently? I like the subject, and it is also the right size for the spot as well as the right colors for the room. I like the frame, too. It is a print of a painting called Girl With a Bell by Cornelis de Vos, a Dutch painter that I had never heard of before.

It is not so special as yours -- not numbered or signed, although it is nicely framed. Excuse the corner of my chandelier in the picture, I couldn't avoid it.

That's a very pretty little picture - excellent frame for it.

Dedtired, have you investigated the prints available from the shops of the good museums?

Here's a link to the prints and posters from the Metropolitan Museum - but the National Gallery in Washington, the Art Institute in Chicago, and many others offer reproductions of their collections, and it can be a great way to put lovely things on your walls when you aren't Miss Moneybags. I've been known to spend $150 on a beautiful frame for a $10 image that I love, and I've put good mats and stock frames on lots of things whose original prices were in the six and seven figures.

Some people say it's heresy. I think it's great. How else do you get Rembrandt in your bathroom, after all ...

Here is a link that might be useful: Prints from the Met

I think the frame is part of the art, so I see no problem in spending more money on the frame than the print. My new picture measures about 28" by 36" and cost $50 in a resale shop. I do think it would benefit from having the glass cleaned on the inside.

omigod....swoon!

just beautiful...you are indeed a lucky one!

Dedtired, that is very pretty, and a steal at $50.

Bronwynsmom, I've heard 'frog strangler' many times around here! Used it myslf a few times, lol! It's a southern thing. And same here with the $10 image in a $150 frame. Got a few of those for sure.

Lucky you! Where are you going to display it?

A few years ago, I purchased a large lithograph at Goodwill. It's signed by the artist, numbered, and still sealed with cert of authenticity attached. I paid $2.50. Boy, thought I had a treasure. However, Lindac tells me it's probably worth not much more than I paid, even though I've seen it for sale online at galleries in our area for $150 - $250. At several galleries, they advertise it as SOLD OUT. Groan! I do like the print and will probably have it framed. It just wasn't the treasure I had hoped for.

Years ago, when we lived in Colorado, I bought DH a signed/numbered Bev Doolittle for Christmas. Wasn't cheap, she was quite popular in Colorado at the time. Well, he opened it up, looked at it for awhile, then said. "I like the frame, I just don't know what I'm going to put in it"!

Ouch, Joyce! That's a great story on your DH. Your grandchildren will love it.

I, too, discovered a disappointing treasure. I inherited what I assumed was a framed offset-printed reproduction of a de Chirico chalk and charcoal drawing of horses.

When I finally took it out of the frame it had been in for 50 years to give it a proper mat and frame, my heart stopped - it appeared to be an original.

It isn't. But it is a serious pulled print, signed in the stone, and somewhat valuable. Had it been the real drawing, I would have retired on the spot. This way, at least, I get to keep it.

Lazy gardens-- is it just tacky of me to ask what you paid for it?

I love it too. Very cool find.

Dead tired. Your print is lovely.

Don't you wonder what people are thinking sometimes?? The other day I was scrounging around in a consignment shop after lunch with my best girlfriend and found a beautiful , barely used wooden salad bowl with utensils for 4 bucks! I snatched it up for my daughter.

Red_lover ... $80. That's more than I usually pay for thrift store art, but it reached out and grabbed me with the artistic merit and the subject matter.

Being well-framed was a bonus, because as we have all discovered, having art matted and framed is usually the most expensive part of collecting. And this one has 2 liners (whatever you call a second contrasting mat that only shows a thin line), one the brown of the cows and the other the grey of the sky, in addition to the main mat.

Ded-Tired : "I think the frame is part of the art, so I see no problem in spending more money on the frame than the print"

You are so right. I'm one of those people who will check every mat color in the store against the artwork to get exactly the right color or colors for the artwork, then do it all over again with the frame material and width.

I don't think much about what the mat and frame will do for my decor, I just want it to do the best it can for the art.

Lazy--bargain. Yes, the last print I had framed on acid free matting (or whatever they call it) and double matted was a Terry Redlin (yes, I adore him) and it was almost 400 dollars for the framing. It was Harvest Moon Ball. Bought it for myself for my anniversary, tehe.

So, I would say that with the print and the frame...you hit pay dirt. Plus, you love it. The most important thing. Way to go.

I specify museum mats and backer boards (which are completely acid free) for everything, at twice the cost, because anything acidic will yellow along the bevel, and will degrade the piece.

Whether or not it's valuable, I don't want that to happen. For good things, I usually use the double thickness ones, too, because that deeper bevel looks so good, and upgrades the whole enterprise.