Included in this lot is an original, signed Carl Tolpo “Ten Sleep Lake” oil painting from 1939. 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 shows grassy hills under a cloudy blue sky in the background with the lake at the forefront and a tree right in the middle of the painting. The painting is signed in the top right corner “Ten Sleep Lake. Sept 10-39. Carl Tolpo". This painting is in great condition for its age and measures 20" by 16".