01 Work, The Art of War, Frank McCarthy's Charging Warrior, with footnotes

Frank McCarthy 

Charging Warrior

Oil on panel

9 x 12

Private collection

Estimated for $5,000 USD - $7,000 USD in April 2024

Carrying a lance, a Northern Plains warrior charges across to battle a challenger. He carries into this fight his personal medicine, given him in a long-ago vision quest by some guardian spirit.

Frank McCarthy (March 30, 1924 – November 17, 2002) was an American artist and realist painter known for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West.

Born in New York City, he studied under George Bridgman and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York then attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator, opening his own studio in 1948. He did illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, including Colliers, Argosy, and True, movie companies, and advertisements.

McCarthy left the commercial art world in 1968 in order to concentrate on Western paintings. In 1975 he was invited to join the Cowboy Artists of America. His 1972 painting "The Last Crossing" was used by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1976 for the cover of their fifth studio album, Long Hard Ride. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. More on Frank McCarthy

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