Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Sitting up cross-legged, with each hand holding a gun from which came thin wisps of smoke."
Alternate Title(s):Hopalong
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
38 × 26 in. (96.5 × 66 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.383
Research Number: NCW: 383
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / -1906-
ProvenanceCollection of Edward Epstean (President of Walker Engraving Co., New York, NY); Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Epstean, 1925-1971; Private collection; (?); (Brandywine Galleries, Ltd, Albuquerque, NM, 1973); Lewis W. Douglas, 1973, for Southern Arizona Bank and Trust, Phoenix, AZ, to 1975; (by corporate merger) First National Bank of Arizona; (by corporate merger) First Interstate Bank of Arizona, to 1996
Exhibition HistoryTucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commemoration," August 20 - Sept. 19, 1975
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illustration in b/w p. 54, p. 268; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illustration in color, p. 20; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.139, p. 146
Curatorial RemarksThis was Wyeth's first published illustration in Outing.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003