This is a gouache watercolor on board by Kenneth Ferguson.  It is entitled, “Age and Wisdom“.  It is on board and finished with crystal clear archival acrylic varnish, which seals the painting off from the environment and provides strong UV protection, so there’s no need for glass.  It is perfectly framed in a classic wood frame.

Kenneth says of this piece,

Age and Wisdom.  With his days of leading men on horse raids and into battle a thing of the past, his duty now as an ”Old Man Chief” is to think of the well-being of all his people. He will try and keep them on the Red Road, the path of peace and plenty, a path not easy to achieve.

Kenneth comments on his paintings, “Much of my work pertains to history and nature; often of the American West — and specifically, the people and animals that made their home on the Great Plains. Through my paintings, I shake the dust off the past and present these traditional subject matters in a more vivid, contemporary way. My interest might be the 19th century but I paint it as a 21st-century artist.”