Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
My English friend thought it was a hold-up.
Alternate Title(s):The Admirable Outlaw; "A Word of Precaution to the Passengers"; Stage Coach
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
38 × 23 5/8 in. (96.5 × 60 cm)
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Accession number: SUPP2000.378
Research Number: NCW: 378
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -06; on reverse, label: Knoedler & Co. / A6259 / Stage Coach; on reverse, label: Coe Kerr Gallery
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; Smart Collection, Flushing, NY, Jan. 1907; (?); (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1970)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 7, as "Stage Coach"; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers, as "Stage Coach"; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 14, plate 1; Tulsa, OK, Thomas Gilcrease Museum (and Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City), "Oklahoma Treasures: Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from Public and Private Collections," June 7 - July 6, 1986; Albuquerque, NM, Albuquerque Museum, "Adventures West: Fifty Masterworks from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center," Dec. 10, 1989 - March 4, 1990; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illus. b/w p. 30, cat. no. 18 on page 81, also p. 75; Indianapolis, IN, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, "Illustrators of the American West," July 9 - Sept. 19, 1993, unnumbered checklist
References
Persimmon Hill (publication of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame), vol. II, no. l, color cover as "A Word of Precaution to the Passengers"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 274, color illustration p. 37; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York, NY: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration p. 27; Lois Brown, compiler, Tales of the Wild West (New York: Rizzoli, 1993), color illustration, p. 109; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.157, p. 156
Curatorial RemarksJim Ellis (museum volunteer, 2007) has identified the gun prominent in the picture as a Winchester Rifle model '73, one of which was included in Wyeth's studio collection (NCWS.95.2403).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting