15-3/8x17-5/8" high quality wooden frame has double archival mat with 7x9.25" opening. Mixed medium full color original art has wonderful image of Native American woman standing on rocky shoreline holding blanket with papoose on her back looking out at mist-shrouded lake with two barely visible canoes approaching in the distance. Art is signed in ink at lower left "W.R. Leigh". Exc. William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) was a prolific painter of the American west. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday he sailed to Germany where he studied for twelve years at the Royal Academy in Munich. He came back to America in 1896 and began work as a magazine illustrator in NYC. In 1906 he made his first trip to New Mexico documenting the southwest and its inhabitants. In 1926 he went on an exposition to Africa lead by Carl Akeley and made studies which he eventually used for the background dioramas that he painted for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He passed away two weeks after being elected into the National Academy of Design. The New York Herald Tribune referred to Leigh as "The Last Surviving Member Of The Famous Western Painting Trio That Included Frederic Remington And Charles Russell". Simply put, a wonderful example by a truly gifted artist.