ELLING WILLIAM GOLLINGS Winter Time. Etching printed in bluis black with additions in...

ELLING WILLIAM GOLLINGS
Winter Time.

Etching printed in bluis black with additions in brush and gray ink wash on cream laid paper, 1928. 256x198 mm; 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.

Gollings (1878-1932) was born in Pierre City, Idaho. His family moved often during his youth and he was raised in New York, Idaho, Michigan and Illinois. In his early twenties, Gollings lived in South Dakota and Nebraska, working as a sheepherder and cowboy. He initially learned to paint through mail-order artist kits and eventually won a scholarship to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1900s Gollings moved to Sheridan, Wyoming and set up an artist studio where he pursued a career as a Western artist. Though successful, he continued to supplement his income pushing cattle and breaking horses. He learned the etching technique from local Wyoming artist Hans Kleiber (1887-1967)....