Included in this lot is an original, signed Carl Tolpo, Sylvan Lake, Yellowstone oil painting from 1965. 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 painting portrays the reflections of Sylvan Lake surrounded by spruce and fir trees, forested mountain slopes, and distant rocky mountains. The painting is signed on the bottom left corner "Carl Tolpo. Sylvan Lake, Yellowstone. 9-4-65". This painting is in good condition for its age and measures 20" by 16".