Olaf Wieghorst
1899
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1988
painter of the American West (1899-1988)
Olaf Wieghorst was a Danish-American painter who specialized in depictions of the American frontier. His art was in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.