The bullfighting scene shown on this firescreen displays much of the bravado and fluidity of motion as those created by William Hunt Diederich. cf. Karen Davies, At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1983, pp.37-38 for a firescreen depicting greyhounds sparring, and which describes the artist's work "...Diederich consistently represented...animals interlocked in violent motion. His ironwork also relates to the metalcrafts of Central American Indians...at the age of sixteen, he spent one of the happiest episodes of his life as a cowboy in Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico."