We just naturally fights like a pair of friends and gentlemen. Bite, kick, and gouge; but no hard feelin's between me and you!

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

We just naturally fights like a pair of friends and gentlemen. Bite, kick, and gouge; but no hard feelin's between me and you!

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915 / 1916
Dimensions:
sight: 24 3/4 x 33 3/4 in. (62.8 x 85.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.628
Research Number: NCW: 628
InscribedUpper right: WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceHarry B. Beck, New York, NY, to -1951; Theodore H. Beck
Exhibition HistoryNeedham, MA, 1923
References "From An Art Editor: An interview with Mr. F. D. Casey, art editor of Collier's Weekly," The American Art Student, vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1916); "Works of Artist Help Town of His Birth," Boston Evening Transcript, Feb. 3, 1923, Book Section, illus. p. 8; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 256; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.582, p. 311
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w photography from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Mr. Theodore H. Beck