21 m/h! By Joe De Yong

• Joe De Yong (1894-1975)
• Pencil Etching
• Title: "21m/h!"
• Matted and Framed
• Size: 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" 
• Signature: Lower Right

A painter and sculptor of Indian and western subjects, Joe De Yong was born in Webster Grove, Missouri, and was raised in Indian territory. As a teenager he learned fancy roping from Will Rogers and earned his living as a cowboy including working with Tom Mix in making westerns. De Yong had deafness due to childhood spinal meningitis and became an expert at Indian sign language. As an artist, he was primarily self taught, and his greatest influence was Charles Russell during the time he worked in Russell's studio from 1916 to 1926 in Montana.