About the works

A pair of watercolors from Wally Findlay Galleries of Chicago. Wally was art dealer to socially prominent collectors in Chicago, New York, Palm Beach, and Paris. He was the son and grandson of well-known art dealers  who sold, among other works, paintings and sculptures by such Western artists as Remington and Russell. Wally joined the family art business in the 1920s, and in 1932 opened his own gallery in Chicago. He carried on in the art business until the 1990s. He died at the age of 92 in 1996. 

About the Artist…

Leonard Howard Reedy (1899-1956) was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended the Institute and Academy of Fine Arts and later came to be known as “Chicago’s Cowboy Painter.”

Reedy’s desire to experience and record frontier life in the Old West was in part inspired by his admiration of Frederic Remington. Like Remington, Reedy was at home in desert country, the Great Plains, and among the mining camps and ranches where he found subjects for his paintings. He roamed with Indian tribes and, over the course of many years, developed intimate knowledge of western life and the people he loved to portray.

Reedy’s paintings tell a story of the action and events that define Western life: cattle drives and ranching, stage coach travel, hold-ups, lumbering wagon trains, soldier and Indian skirmishes, bleached bones on prairie trails, and the tireless search for gold.

Most of the artist’s public pieces reside in restaurants in the Chicago area, with which he traded for meals.

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