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That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger
That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger
That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger
(American, 1882 - 1945)

That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger

Oil on canvas
1921
30 × 29 1/4 in. (76.2 × 74.3 cm)
SUPP2000.1813
Private collection
Not on view
He crowded me too far one day and pushed me to the point of one of those frenzied revolts for which the Dutch are famous
He crowded me too far one day and pushed me to the point of one of those frenzied revolts for which the Dutch are famous
N.C. Wyeth
1921
The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff
The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull
In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff
N.C. Wyeth
1913
Back and forth across it we went, twisting, straining, holding our strength, each striving to break the grip of the other's fingers on his wrist. I felt his breath upon my face, saw his cold eyes like blue fire burning me.
Back and forth across it we went, twisting, straining, holding our strength, each striving to break the grip of the other's fingers on his wrist. I felt his breath upon my face, saw his cold eyes like blue fire burning me.
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1914
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
At Queen's Ferry And the spirit of all that I beheld put me in thoughts of far voyages and foreign places
At Queen's Ferry
And the spirit of all that I beheld put me in thoughts of far voyages and foreign places
N.C. Wyeth
1913
"The plan is to have your cavalry cut a hole through the Confederate lines, and for me to slip through it . . . put me across to-night and I'll be in Richmond day after to-morrow"
"The plan is to have your cavalry cut a hole through the Confederate lines, and for me to slip through it . . . put me across to-night and I'll be in Richmond day after to-morrow"
N.C. Wyeth
1912
"I'm not going," Randall told the men in the overcrowded boat. "I'll stick here and when you get to San Francisco ask Cappy Ricks to send a tug out to look for me."
"I'm not going," Randall told the men in the overcrowded boat. "I'll stick here and when you get to San Francisco ask Cappy Ricks to send a tug out to look for me."
N.C. Wyeth
1923
"Then what are you going to do with me?"
"Then what are you going to do with me?"
N.C. Wyeth
1912
"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
N.C. Wyeth
1915
"And I cursed the men who grinned at me across the table"
"And I cursed the men who grinned at me across the table"
N.C. Wyeth
1904
It was a magnificent finale, a sight for men and gods. Like the wind he flung by the other horse, and two lengths ahead he went by the corral gate
It was a magnificent finale, a sight for men and gods. Like the wind he flung by the other horse, and two lengths ahead he went by the corral gate
N.C. Wyeth
1915
We just naturally fights like a pair of friends and gentlemen. Bite, kick, and gouge; but no hard feelin's between me and you!
We just naturally fights like a pair of friends and gentlemen. Bite, kick, and gouge; but no hard feelin's between me and you!
N.C. Wyeth
1915 / 1916