PROSE SKETCHES TO ACCOMPANY THE SERIES OF PAINTINGS BY FRANK REAUGH ENTITLED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS WITH THE HERD

Dallas, TX: Frank Reaugh, 1934. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. The text based partly on an earlier sketch by "HONDO" and written jointly by the painter and by Clyde Walton Hill, author of "SHINING TRAILS". Foreword, contents, 7 plates, and text. Marbled endpapers, 28pp., gilt titles printed on lower wrap, oblong brown/tan cow hide patterned silky wraps. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches

RARE. The series of pastels titled Twenty-four Hours with the Herd depicts an iconic Texas scene: the cattle drive. Artist Frank Reaugh completed the series in the 1930s, but they portray an earlier chapter of Texas history, when fences had not yet crossed the landscape, and men and cattle moved freely on the open range.

Born in Illinois in 1860, Reaugh moved to Texas when he was fifteen. His family grew cotton, but young Reaugh was interested in art and nature, and divided his time between the family farm and studying art in St. Louis and Paris. Frank Reaugh's works are on display around the state. The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds over two hundred, including his iconic series Twenty-four Hours with the Herd. Several of Reaugh's works are held by the Texas State Capitol Art Collection, and more than seven hundred are displayed on a rotating basis in the Frank Reaugh Gallery at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon.