Featured in this lot is this oil on board of a stagecoach pursued by a war band by American artist Ronald Crooks born in 1925 and died in 2006. The artwork features a wonderfully and professionally crafted oil on board construction that shows men on the stagecoach running from war band of Indians with the hillside in the background. The artist signature is in the bottom left hand corner of the painting. Ron Crooks is a painter of nostalgic western genre subjects. He was born and raised in Glendale, California and in 1972 moved to French Gulch, California. He enrolled in the OtisArt Institute in March 1944, and "completed only three weeks at Otis, before being drafted into the Army. Two and a half years later he returned home and enrolled again at Otis. After one year, he moved to the School of Allied Arts and left school in 1950 to work in the art department of an aircraft company. In 1968, after fifteen years in advertising art, he took the big step to fine art, painting all subjects, but soon discovering an identity in Western subjects. In 1968, after fifteen years in advertising art, he took the big step to fine art, painting all subjects, but soon discovering an identity in Western subjects. The condition of this oil painting on board is preserved with a small chip to the paint in the top right hand corner but otherwise shows a preserved overall condition. The measurements of this framed oil painting is 26 1/8" x 38 1/4" and the visible artwork measures 23 1/4" x 35 1/2".