Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
New Story Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):McKeon's Graft; McKeon's Graft (Train Robbery); The Great Train Robbery; Train Robbery; Two Bandits Holding Up Train
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
44 × 33 1/8 in. (111.8 × 84.1 cm)
Ken and Joan Austin
Accession number: SUPP2000.450
Research Number: NCW: 450
InscribedLabels on reverse: Coe Kerr Gallery; Jim Fowler's Period Gallery # 12982; Berger Art Conservation, Inc. Jan 21, 1977
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964); Dr. Thomas A. McGraw, NY, 1964; (Parke-Bernet, March 16, 1967, lot no. 87, as "Train Robbery"); Mr. Yale Kneeland III, by 1974; (?); (Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 23, 1983, lot no. 374, as "The Great Train Robbery")
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 19 as "Two Bandits Holding Up Train", b/w illustration; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 74, as "McKeon's Graft," b/w illustration p. 8; Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 19 on p. 200, as "McKeon's Graft (Train Robbery)," color illustration p. 91, see also p. 80; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), no. 41, p. 75, b/w illustration p. 56; Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, May 27-Sept. 27, 2017, "The Western: An Epic in Art and Film"; Montreal, Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Oct. 14, 2017-Feb. 4, 2018, "Once Upon a Time...The Western"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 267; Stephen May, "N. C. Wyeth's Wild West," Southwest Art, vol. 20, no. 9, (February 1991), color illustration, p. 100; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.441, p. 260-261
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Ralston, www.pralston.com