Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Bucking Bronco; Cowboy on Bucking Horse; King Charlie's Riders
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1915
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1084
Research Number: NCW: 1084
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCollection of Mr.and Mrs. Larry Sheerin, 1974; (Christie's, New York, NY, Dec. 2, 1988, lot no. 166)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 100, as "Cowboy on Bucking Horse"; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57 as "The Bucking Bronco"
References
David Manning (Max Brand), King Charlie's Riders, A Western Story (New York: Chelsea House, 1925), cover illustration; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrtions and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; John G. Leyden, "Max Brand: The Poet who wrote Westerns," American History Magazine, vol. XXXII, no. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1997), p. 49; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.592, p. 315
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of private collector