Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: This was originally, um, a part of a law firm and now I own that law firm.

The painting came included with it.

APPRAISER: Do you want to tell us who this is?

Who-who did this?

GUEST: I believe it's Burt Procter?

APPRAISER: Burt Procter, that's correct.

And he was another of these artists who originally lived in the East Coast, but was totally smitten with the idea of the West and cowboys and horse riding.

He was a very avid horse rider himself.

When he was about eight years old, his-his family moved to Illinois.

He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: He went to L.A. and was a mining engineer.

And then he came back to New York and he studied illustration with people like Harvey Dunn.

So he's known as an illustrator, too.

But his real passion, as I say, was the West and eventually moved out there to California.

And he did, this is very typical painting by him.

Procter's not known necessarily for dating his paintings, but I would think this one is probably painted circa 1960 or so.

And, of course, it's-it's oil paint on canvas.

I wanted to check with my colleagues-- this is the great thing about the Roadshow, you can go to other specialists, they're right here.

Uh, so I went to see them and ask about this to find out whether it was a specific tribe.

And they tell me that this is most likely a scene done in Mexico.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Given by the lady in question, the colors, the-the fan.

At auction, I've seen ones similar, selling for $6,000 to $10,000.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: And I think if you're insuring it, you probably shouldn't insure it for anything less than about $15,000.

GUEST: Oh, wow, that's pretty good.