Gerard Curtis Delano (1890-1972)


Tornado Tex from Tabernash: Cover Illustration signed with artist's mongram 'D.' (lower center)oil on canvas16 x 18inPainted circa 1929.
|ProvenanceCountry Store Gallery, Austin, Texas. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1983.LiteratureS.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 75, illustrated (erroneously attributed to William Herbert Dunton).The present work was reproduced on the cover of Ace-High Magazine's November 1929 issue, a publication which featured Western adventure and sports stories. The work was commissioned to illustrate, as the magazine called it, "a very fast-moving, book-length novel of the Roaring West," entitled Tornado Tex from Tabernash by the author Forbes Parkhill.