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The man's query was so startlingly abrupt that it caught Slim with his guard down.
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The man's query was so startlingly abrupt that it caught Slim with his guard down.
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The man's query was so startlingly abrupt that it caught Slim with his guard down.
Oil on canvas
1916
32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
SUPP2000.701
Private collection
Not on view
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But Sir Henry never stopped. He kept right on. When he reached the top step he braced his foot on it and gave a mighty spring and caught the Greaser around the waist and swung him clean out of the saddle.
N.C. Wyeth
1912
"A rounded shape on a little hillside caught his eyes."
N.C. Wyeth
1906
I jumped down into the stream and caught her in my arms as she was losing her hold
N.C. Wyeth
1921
The effect was startling. The man's feet left the ground and he fell with a thud as if dropped from some height . . .
N.C. Wyeth
1925
Robin Hood Defeats Nat of Nottingham at Quarter-staff
The beggar dealt his foe a back-thrust so neatly, so heartily, and so swiftly that Nat was swept off the stage into the crowd as a fly off a table.
N.C. Wyeth
1917
So the maiden went on, and little divined or imagined what was at work in his heart, that made him so awkward and speechless.
N.C. Wyeth
1920
Round the dead man's neck, suspended by a cord, hung the Harvest Moon
N.C. Wyeth
1911
The White Man's Way, untitled headpiece illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1905
A Man's Table Reversed
William Michael Harnett
1877
So through the Plymouth Woods John Alden went on his errand
N.C. Wyeth
1920
She was as slim as a boy, and danced with a lightness and suppleness of body and arms and hands unlike anything I have ever seen
N.C. Wyeth
1923
Far Off a Voice Said, "All Right, Slim, Hop Him!" Then There Were Dim Cries of "Sock It to Him! . . ."
N.C. Wyeth
1925
