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I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine
I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine
I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine
(American, 1882 - 1945)

I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine

Alternate Title(s)
  • Ben Gunn
Oil on canvas
1911
47 × 38 in. (119.4 × 96.5 cm)
SUPP2000.15
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Not on view
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
N.C. Wyeth
1916
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (the wild man peering from behind a tree trunk)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (the wild man peering from behind a tree trunk)
N.C. Wyeth
1918
Behind Them Streamed the Mingled Traffic of a Road that Led to a Great City
Behind Them Streamed the Mingled Traffic of a Road that Led to a Great City
N.C. Wyeth
1912
"Nearest to the rough pine box stood the widow, with lowered eyes"
"Nearest to the rough pine box stood the widow, with lowered eyes"
N.C. Wyeth
1907
"I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made"
"I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
As I turned I saw her kneeling there, her hair all about her face, with her hands stretched out to me: and then I walked blindly away into the long grass of the marsh
As I turned I saw her kneeling there, her hair all about her face, with her hands stretched out to me: and then I walked blindly away into the long grass of the marsh
N.C. Wyeth
1921
Catriona's Leap
Catriona's Leap
N.C. Wyeth
1924
untitled (view of tree trunk in field setting)
untitled (view of tree trunk in field setting)
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1917 / 1921
This dangerous wild thing was undecided whether to leap in or back out. Eye to eye boy and wolf stared at each other for one terrible moment.
This dangerous wild thing was undecided whether to leap in or back out. Eye to eye boy and wolf stared at each other for one terrible moment.
N.C. Wyeth
1923
"--and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed--"
"--and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed--"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
The Brig "Covenant" in a Fog All afternoon, when I went on deck, I saw men and officers listening hard over the bulwarks
The Brig "Covenant" in a Fog
All afternoon, when I went on deck, I saw men and officers listening hard over the bulwarks
N.C. Wyeth
1913
"My great white brothers," said Chief Santanta, after loading the peace-pipe and passing it to General Sherman, "I welcome you to my camp and to my people!"
"My great white brothers," said Chief Santanta, after loading the peace-pipe and passing it to General Sherman, "I welcome you to my camp and to my people!"
N.C. Wyeth
1916