Aimed Carefully at His Breast, Each with His Index Finger Upon His Rifle-Trigger

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Aimed Carefully at His Breast, Each with His Index Finger Upon His Rifle-Trigger

Date: 1908
Dimensions:
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known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1946
Research Number: NCW: 1946
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -08- (from reproduction)
References Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901- 1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 257; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 273; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.246, p. 186
Curatorial Remarks"I am at work on the last Post drawings for the Convict story and will feel greatly relieved therefrom. I have done some very poor work for that story, and simply because I was not in sympathy with it" (Wyeth, ed., p. 257).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from print source (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/27/2005