Included in this lot is an original signed Carl Tolpo Direct From Nature oil painting from 1935. Carl Tolpo was born in Ludington, Michigan in 1901. During the course of his career, he established his reputation as a portrait, genre and landscape painter as well as a portrait and figure sculptor. As a painter, his works in fine oil portraiture particularly include State portraits and landscape oil paintings of the western USA, mostly the Yellowstone Park region. His works are on display in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This 1935 Montana landscape painting by Carl Tolpo, portrays a view of sunlit Mount Edith in the distance sloping down to the sunny valley of White Sulphur Springs and dramatically in the foreground are incoming dark storm clouds with rain. The piece is signed "Tolpo 6/35 Direct From Nature". The artwork measures 14" by 10 1/4".