Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
In ten seconds his gun was leveled in their gaping faces. "Back!" he yelled, his blue eyes black like a maniac's; "fall back!"
Alternate Title(s):Fall Back!
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
32 1/4 × 40 in. (81.9 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1272
Research Number: NCW: 1272
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined)
Provenance(Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, 1981); (?); (Christie's, New York, NY, Dec. 4, 1997, lot no. 76, as "Fall Back!"); Private collection; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 22, 2008, lot no. 183, as "Fall Back!")
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 256; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.688, p. 359
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Color photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Christie's, New York