Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/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."

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

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."

Alternate Title(s):It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1682
Research Number: NCW: 1682
InscribedAlong left side of left-hand image: W (with dot under each point, from reproduction)
References William F. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1920), illustration f. p. 174; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 260; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.646, p. 338
Curatorial RemarksThis image was reproduced initially in vignette style across two pages, with two separate captions.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed source
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 7/11/2006