Featured in this lot original watercolor from Charles Frizzell born in 1944, of a Native chief. The artwork features a wonderfully and professionally crafted watercolor construction that shows a Native chief in a trade blanket wearing a Indian Tanned hide garment underneath with a bone pipe bead breastplate that is heavily beaded with cowrie shells above the breastplate. The artist signature is in the bottom left hand corner. A Kentucky native, Charles Frizzell has been creating artwork all his life. After graduating in 1967 from Murray State University in Kentucky with a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts degree, he headed west, settling in Colorado in 1969. During the mid to late 1980’s, Charles worked with Frank Howell in his studios in Denver, CO and later in Santa Fe, NM. Charles’ primary media is currently acrylics; however, he also works with oils, watercolors, graphite, pen and ink, and lithography. His landscapes reflect his love of and concern for the earth as well as the changes brought about by mankind. His Native American mystical paintings have been collected world wide, as have his fantasy artworks. His work is exhibited extensively both regionally and nationally. He is included in the permanent collections of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Sangre de Christo Art Center in Pueblo, CO. He has been included three times in the top 100 of the prestigious Arts for the Parks exhibitions, winning a bronze medal once, and being selected as a poster artist another time. His acceptance into “Spectrum 7”, 2000, marked his first internationally juried show, and he was selected again into “Spectrum 11, the Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art” in 2004. In 2008, his painting of the Great Sand Dunes National Park landed him in the top 100 of the Paint the Parks National Exhibition. The following year his painting of Pikes Peak beaver ponds put him in the top 50 of the Mini category of the Paint America competition. This year he is a finalist in another international competition, the Salon 2012-13 of the Art Renewal Center. His entry was a still life of a 1954 Hudson front end shown and sold here at Michael’s. His recent mural painting can be seen in the Fremont County Center for the Arts, along with the six other mural artists. The condition of this Charles Frizzell watercolor is well preserved with no obvious signs of damage to the frame and artwork and shows a well preserved overall condition. The measurements of this framed watercolor is 19 1/2" x 18" and the visible artwork measures 9 1/4" x 7 3/4". The collective weight of this 4lb 4oz.