Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
His eyes looked as Sabra had never seen them look, merciless, cold, hypnotic. "A three-cornered piece, you'll find it, Lon. The Cravat sheep-brand"
Alternate Title(s):Shoot Out
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1929
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1143
Research Number: NCW: 1143
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, stock no. 54797); (?); (Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1988); (Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY, ca. 1989; American Illustrators Gallery, NY, NY, to 1993); Private collection, New York, NY; (Christie's, New York, NY, May 19, 2005, lot no. 135)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 48, as "Cimmoron" (sic); Richmond, VA, 1958; Los Angeles, CA, Bronson-Rollins & Associates, Inc., "The Western Tradition," Oct. 20 - Dec. 20, 1988, as "Shoot Out"; Japan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, illustration in color p. 43, no. 22 p. 126, incorrectly titled as "Cimarron-Yancey Gets the Kid / I'll drill the first one of you that fires another shot";
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 59; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 279; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1130, p. 524, 525
Curatorial RemarksThis image was used in vignette form in Woman's Home Companion advertising material. See NCW 1427, an unfinished version of this image, with different secondary figures in alternative positions.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Christie's, 4/2005