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"Up with your hands or we'll make this a shambles, now that we've started."
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"Up with your hands or we'll make this a shambles, now that we've started."
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Up with your hands or we'll make this a shambles, now that we've started."
Oil on canvas
1913
27 × 39 1/2 in. (68.6 × 100.3 cm)
SUPP2000.1740
Private collection
Not on view
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"One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"
N.C. Wyeth
1911
"Your father--" Sabra would begin courageously, resolved to make him live again in the minds of the children
N.C. Wyeth
1929
"Now, mark me, mine host," Sir Daniel said, "follow but mine orders and I shall be your good lord ever"
N.C. Wyeth
1916
"God's light! I'll question him: ay, and wring an answer from him if I have to put a length of whipcord round his temples! Now go your way," the governor informed him
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1928
"Hands Up!"
N.C. Wyeth
1906
Untitled (study of a figure with his hands up; hand holding a pistol)
N.C. Wyeth
date not known
I climbed up over the bow, trying to make no noise. But Clews heard me
N.C. Wyeth
1919
Sometimes Two or Three Would Make Up a Partnership for the Sake of Greater Safety
N.C. Wyeth
1905
"Is there anything in this Coroner's investigation we've got to be careful of?" he asked.
N.C. Wyeth
1913
"Two year we've had o' this life. . . . Two blarsted God-forsaken year, an' another yet"
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1917
The Three Knights
"It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."
N.C. Wyeth
1922
"We'll lave it up to the termites," says he, and he sat down and lit another cigarette. He'd smoked three before wan av the termites arrived and bit the poor lip ave me . . .
N.C. Wyeth
1914
