This is an original 1974 signed and numbered print by artist Mel Hunter. Edition size was out of 500. Here a cowboy leads his horse down the hill holding the reigns loosely with a piece of straw in his mouth. My design goal with this original print is to use string to aesthetically texturize the grass the horse and he are walking through. Trying my best to match the colors but short string, 6 per screw, and it should give that somewhat shag rug effect mirroring the thick grass theyre passing through.

Dimensions: 22” x 29.5” - We approximate piece count to be 1000-1100.

Mel Hunter (1927–2004) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and science-fiction artist, best known for his imaginative space-themed artwork in mid-20th-century magazines. Over his career, he moved from commercial illustration into fine-art lithography, becoming influential in both fields.

In the 1950s–60s, Hunter became one of the most recognizable illustrators in science-fiction magazines such as Galaxy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and If.
His work helped define the visual identity of post-war American sci-fi. Beginning in the late 1960s, Hunter shifted away from commercial sci-fi work and focused on fine-art natural-history lithography, particularly wildlife and landscape subjects. He also taught at the University of Vermont, influencing younger generations of printmakers.