Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"At the same time Hahn pulled his gun and shot him through the middle"
Alternate Title(s):Called him out and shot him in the stomach; Gunsmoke; Hahn Pulled His Gun and Shot Him Through the Middle
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
37 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (96.2 × 60.6 cm)
Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
Accession number: SUPP2000.720
Research Number: NCW: 720
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -06-
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, NM, to 1958; H. J. Lutcher Stark, purchased as "Gunsmoke"
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 116
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illus. b/w p. 34, ps. 238, 266; Julie Schimmel and Gilbert Tapley Vincent, Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 1978 (Orange, Texas: The Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1978), p. 81; Alan Axelrod, The Art of the Golden West An Illustrated History (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990), b/w illus. p. 370; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.132, p. 142; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 9
Curatorial RemarksAccording to letters, Wyeth received this installment of the story in late November, 1905, and was able to write to his mother on Jan. 4, 1906, "I have nearly completed the illustrations (3) for their S. E. White story. They are by far the best illustrations I have ever turned out" (NCW to HZW, Jan. 4, 1906, dated by postmark on evelope, Wyeth Family Archives)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas