A. Enriquez Vaquero Cattle Roping Oil on Burlap, Mid-Century View Watchlist >
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A. Enriquez Vaquero Cattle Roping Oil on Burlap, Mid-Century
A vigorous sepia-toned action scene by A. Enriquez executed in oil on stretched burlap sack. The composition captures a moment of working ranch drama: a mounted vaquero leans hard into his rope as his horse drives forward against a longhorn steer, while a second rider works cattle in the middle distance and a herd churns through the dust behind. The artist builds the figures through thick impasto strokes of umber and black, letting the natural buff of the burlap carry the dust and sky.
Signed lower left A. Enriquez in the wet paint. The limited brown-and-cream palette and gestural handling are consistent with mid-twentieth-century Juarez area painting traditions. The cattle-working subject has direct cultural resonance with the charreada tradition, and the sepia palette crosses over naturally into contemporary interior design markets.
CONDITION
Good. Oil on burlap is stable and stretched taut with no tears or losses noted. Frame shows a chip to the lower left corner.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall (framed): 27 1/2" × 32 3/4"
- Visible image: 20" × 25"
- Medium: Oil on burlap sack, stretched
- Signature: A. Enriquez, lower left
