This is an original Leal Mack oil painting of an Old West homestead on board, signed lower right, accompanied by an original Bent Gallery Taos, New Mexico Leal Mack bio paperwork. Leal Mack (New Mexico, 1892-1962) was a noted painter depicting the Old West ranging from the Working West, Traditional West and Neighborly East and Midwest. Leal Mack studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, then, at Chadds Ford, became one of the most productive members in N.C. Wyeth’s coterie of young artists of unusual potential. Mack moved west to Taos, New Mexico and grew to love and beautifully illustrate the West. In the Chadds Ford group, Leal Mack was influenced by and worked with Peter Hurd, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, John McCoy, Pitt Fitzgerald, Carolyn and Andrew Wyeth. The oil on board is in good condition and framed. Board measures 10.25-inches by 8.25-inches and frame is 13.25-inches by 11.25-inches. The lot includes the original oil on board signed lower right, framed and accompanied by a hand typewriter typed two page biography on Leal Mack as well as the original Bent Gallery Taos, New Mexico Gov. Bent House on Bent Streat. The painting was purchased from Bent Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. BIOGRAPHY: An illustrator for fifteen years before the Great Depression, he had work in leading magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentlemen, Harper's, and Youth's Companion. He also did landscape painting and carved his frames.Leal Mack's paintings fall mainly within three categories:The working west - The men and horses, and the cattle they tended, during the later years of the 19th century and six decades of the 20th.The traditional west - That period in our nations' development when the West's undulative hill and plain, the far reaches of the wind-swept grass, lay open to the buffalo herds, to the Comanche and the Sioux, to the plodding wagon trains; when the high Rockies challenged mountain men of the ilk of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson to come on in for beaver but to keep a sharp eye for the hazards.The neighborly East and Midwest - The life of the towns and farms that Leal Mack knew as a boy; the fold that he came to know as he grew to manhood and for some years worked among, and who, in hi through, remained throughout his life as friends and neighbors.Leal Mack studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, then at Chadds Ford, became one of the most productive members in N. C. Wyeth's coterie of young artists of unusual potential. Eventually Mack moved west to Taos, where he painted most of his intimately discerning portrayals of the America he knew and loved.In the paintings too are distinctive features characteristic of the Chadds Ford group, an understanding and respect for the simpler elements of life, and that same quality of artistic integrity found in the work of such other individualists as Peter Hurd, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, John McCoy, Pitt Fitzgerald, Carolyn and Andrew Wyeth."