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The old friends sat about the fireplace and told stories.
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The old friends sat about the fireplace and told stories.
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The old friends sat about the fireplace and told stories.
Oil on canvas
1904
dimensions unavailable
SUPP2000.1969
Destroyed by fire, July 1908
Not on view
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"Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing."
N.C. Wyeth
1921
".... and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he grew into great favor."
N.C. Wyeth
1921
We just naturally fights like a pair of friends and gentlemen. Bite, kick, and gouge; but no hard feelin's between me and you!
N.C. Wyeth
1915 / 1916
"Can't we even stay friends?" he pleaded.
N.C. Wyeth
1911
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The bowman sang snatches of French love songs in a voice which might have scared the most stouthearted maiden.
N.C. Wyeth
1922
"I remember," writes Buffalo Bill, "the next day father began trading with the Indians, who were so pleased over the bargins we offered that they sent their friends back to us after they cantered away."
N.C. Wyeth
1916
The Three Friends
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1939
I had many friends among professional thieves. From the very first I had been "right"
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1913
Finally, the great scene of boyhood, the scene which will endear its hero to every generation of boys forever, the original of all the Jack the Giant Killer stories--David and Goliath
N.C. Wyeth
1929
The Education of Mr. Pipp: Mr. Pipp Meets Two of the Courier's Intimate Friends, a Prince and a Duke
Charles Dana Gibson
1898
Boston Blackie Stories, untitled headpiece illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1914
Cover for Harper's Weekly - Civil War Stories
Edwin Roscoe Shrader
ca. 1910