Antiques Roadshow

my grandfather was an artist and he had a great eye for art as did my grandmother my grandmother went to an estate sale one day and ran across this painting at the time it was signed G day only G day and she recognized it as being good Texas art I thought my grandfather would also appreciate it she bought it and took it home and did some research and realized that it was a Robert Wood I think that they bought it and either the late 60s or the early 70s I think that it was originally purchased for less than a thousand dollars my grandfather wanted to get to meet Robert Wood and then also wanted to hopefully increase the value of this painting so decided to track him down in California and get this painting signed I want to disappoint your grandfather but I actually doesn't really affect you it's really neat but we know who G day is where was the faded garage sale in San Antonio Robert Wood is actually English but he moved to America as a young man he was 21 in 1910 and lived all over America doing kind of the hobo experience if you will random jobs trains painting all the while but he settled in San Antonio in 1923 he was there for a number of years all the way through 1940 he did end up in California was it Laguna where they tracked him I believe so and I don't know the date for sure early in the 70s is my understanding well he died in 1979 this particular painting is oil on Kansas signed lower-right G day and also signed Robert Wood which I've never seen before I think there were very few people who tracked him down and had him reassigned them he also during this period was signing his works Trevor TR e Bo R which is just Roberts backwards there are lots of stories about why and I think all of them are apocryphal I don't think anybody knows but he only did that between 1924 and 1940 the two other signatures G day and Trebor and then after that the remainder of his work is all signed Robert Wood I noticed on the back there's an appraisal I'm gonna call it an appraisal because it says $5,000 and then it says Robert Wood underneath it and I'm wondering when they took it to him if maybe at the time he assigned that value and then signed his name underneath we see the stamps the copyright is reserved by the artists and that the painting is by Robert Wood which probably wouldn't be on there from a painting like this circa 1930 so I would imagine those were added as well when he reviewed the painting and modified the signature for your family Wood is famous for a bunch of different subjects but in particular the bluebonnets are something of a signature topic for him and they also are among his most valuable paintings this would be a strong example of paintings of this period at auction right now I think a reasonable estimate would be in the realm of fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars Wow that's incredible there's literally over a million prints of some of his more famous paintings