Lecture on the western cowboy art of E. William 'Bill'
Gollings at McDaniel College, Oct. 13 Collector, author to speak at Peterson
Hall event
As a result of the collaboration of McDaniel professor Sue
Bloom, local Westminster physician Dr. Dean Griffin and McDaniel College, a
special talk on the western art of E. William Gollings will be held on Thursday
evening October 13th in Peterson Hall at McDaniel College at 7 pm.
The premier authority on Gollings' work, Dr. William Ward,
will be speaking.
According to Griffin and Bloom, Ward is a radiologist, who
trained at the University of Maryland Medical School. He discovered the work of
Gollings as he flew from his home in Laramie, Wyoming, to the remote
populations of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, delivering medical care.
It was during his residency when Ward became friends with a
gallery owner in Denver, according to Bloom and Griffin. Thus began many years
of collecting the work of E. William Gollings, a true cowboy artist, who lived
from 1878 to1932, in Wyoming.
Ward and his wife, Carole, have amassed the definitive
collection of Gollings work and have arranged to donate over $5 million in
Gollings work to the University of Wyoming Museum of Art.
Ward has published two books on Gollings' art and
commissioned a bronze statue of Gollings to sit across the street from the
Wyoming State Capitol. His philanthropy in the fields of art and medicine are
widely known in the west.
E. William Gollings was known as “Paint Bill” during his
lifetime and he worked in watercolor, oils and etching. He painted cowboys,
Indians, wolves, livestock and ranchers. Many of his paintings went east with
vacationers at dude ranches, selling for as little as $20.
Griffin said in a recent e-mail interview, “The lecturer is
a friend of mine from Wyoming … Last year I traveled to Wyoming to hear him
give this lecture to a group from the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma
City.
“It was excellent,” said Griffin. Dr. Ward has quite an
extensive collection. This artist and the lecturer are very well known in the
southwest of the United States. Several of Gollings paintings are in the Grand
Room of the Wyoming State House and there is a bronze statue of Bill Gollings
on the lawn of the Wyoming State House.
“This is a rare opportunity for you to hear a great lecture
on Cowboy Art. Dr Ward is very knowledgeable of the art and history of the southwest.
I am pleased he has agreed to do this while visiting here in Westminster. My
hat goes off to Professor Bloom who has made this possible.”
Thursday evening, Ward will talk about Gollings work and his
own commitment to documenting Gollings' life and collecting his art work. The
event is open to the public.
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