Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Mr. Cassidy . . . saw a crimson rider sweep down upon him . . . heralded by a blazing .41"
Alternate Title(s):Cassidy at Cactus; Hopalong Cassidy
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.918
Research Number: NCW: 918
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / '06
Provenance(Sotheby's, NY, May 31, 1984, lot no. 139, as "Cassidy at Cactus"); The Sordoni Collection; [Dallas, TX, Heritage Auctions, May 3, 2019, no. 68083]
Exhibition HistoryJapan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, illustration in color p. 32, no. 11 p. 125 as "Hopalong Cassidy"; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 268; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.145, p. 148; Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler, Howard Pyle: His Students & the Golden Age of American Illustration (Newport, RI: The American Civilization Foundation, 2017), p. 202
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2000