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The effect was startling. The man's feet left the ground and he fell with a thud as if dropped from some height . . .
The effect was startling. The man's feet left the ground and he fell with a thud as if dropped from some height . . .
The effect was startling. The man's feet left the ground and he fell with a thud as if dropped from some height . . .
(American, 1882 - 1945)

The effect was startling. The man's feet left the ground and he fell with a thud as if dropped from some height . . .

Alternate Title(s)
  • The Knockout
Oil on canvas
1925
32 × 64 in. (81.3 × 162.6 cm)
SUPP2000.639
Private collection
Not on view
Suddenly the restful quiet of the morning was broken by Pablo. . . . Gray paused in the middle of a sentence and with Morgan and Jo started for the gate. Bill dropped his paper and got to his feet (left side)
Suddenly the restful quiet of the morning was broken by Pablo. . . . Gray paused in the middle of a sentence and with Morgan and Jo started for the gate. Bill dropped his paper and got to his feet (left side)
N.C. Wyeth
1925
Some Fell on Good Ground
Some Fell on Good Ground
William Trost Richards
ca. 1887
At a touch from Michael's knife . . . the sword flew in splinters, and the wretch, stabbed to the heart, fell lifeless on the ground.
At a touch from Michael's knife . . . the sword flew in splinters, and the wretch, stabbed to the heart, fell lifeless on the ground.
N.C. Wyeth
1927
Suddenly the restful quiet of the morning was broken by Pablo. . . . Gray paused in the middle of a sentence and with Morgan and Jo started for the gate. Bill dropped his paper and got to his feet (right side)
Suddenly the restful quiet of the morning was broken by Pablo. . . . Gray paused in the middle of a sentence and with Morgan and Jo started for the gate. Bill dropped his paper and got to his feet (right side)
N.C. Wyeth
1925
We rode quietly until the suburbs had dropped behind, and then lashed out furiously. (left side)
We rode quietly until the suburbs had dropped behind, and then lashed out furiously. (left side)
N.C. Wyeth
1923
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
N.C. Wyeth
1916
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
He perceived, at some yards from the ruin of the building, an old man surrounded by weeping children.
He perceived, at some yards from the ruin of the building, an old man surrounded by weeping children.
N.C. Wyeth
1927
When temptation came, and Adam and Eve fell out of the their sinless and virtueless Eden, they began to be worth while. They fell from innocence into manhood and womanhood. They fell from shiftlessness into work. They fell from a drifting irresponsibility into worry and trouble and despair, but also into ambition and courage and hope
When temptation came, and Adam and Eve fell out of the their sinless and virtueless Eden, they began to be worth while. They fell from innocence into manhood and womanhood. They fell from shiftlessness into work. They fell from a drifting irresponsibility into worry and trouble and despair, but also into ambition and courage and hope
N.C. Wyeth
1928
Just as the baby's feet cleared the ground Padfoot leaped into the air and buried his teeth into the feathers of his old enemy.
Just as the baby's feet cleared the ground Padfoot leaped into the air and buried his teeth into the feathers of his old enemy.
N.C. Wyeth
1923
The man's query was so startlingly abrupt that it caught Slim with his guard down.
The man's query was so startlingly abrupt that it caught Slim with his guard down.
N.C. Wyeth
1916
"I am advertising the Brotherhood of Man, Simplicity, Truth, and Freedom from Possessions" (left side)
"I am advertising the Brotherhood of Man, Simplicity, Truth, and Freedom from Possessions" (left side)
N.C. Wyeth
1914