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"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
(American, 1882 - 1945)

"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."

Oil on canvas
1915
approximately 34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
SUPP2000.1162
Private collection
Not on view
Have You Forgotten How You Threatened Twenty Years Ago, to Follow Me to the Very Gates of Hell, and What I Promised You--That If You Did, I'd Push You Inside?
Have You Forgotten How You Threatened Twenty Years Ago, to Follow Me to the Very Gates of Hell, and What I Promised You--That If You Did, I'd Push You Inside?
Douglas Duer
1921
"See here Harjes, don't you ask me to do any of your dirty work--because I won't do it!"
"See here Harjes, don't you ask me to do any of your dirty work--because I won't do it!"
N.C. Wyeth
1913
"Mother, you sent me for a clothes-line--I've been delayed--but here it is"
"Mother, you sent me for a clothes-line--I've been delayed--but here it is"
N.C. Wyeth
1909
"I'm not going," Randall told the men in the overcrowded boat. "I'll stick here and when you get to San Francisco ask Cappy Ricks to send a tug out to look for me."
"I'm not going," Randall told the men in the overcrowded boat. "I'll stick here and when you get to San Francisco ask Cappy Ricks to send a tug out to look for me."
N.C. Wyeth
1923
"Do you mean that you do not care--that you do not hate and despise me? I have never known a woman like you. I have never believed that there were such women."
"Do you mean that you do not care--that you do not hate and despise me? I have never known a woman like you. I have never believed that there were such women."
N.C. Wyeth
1925
Yes. I've always been crazy over pictures! Did you know I did china painting as a girl?
Yes. I've always been crazy over pictures! Did you know I did china painting as a girl?
Barbara Shermund
ca. 1925
Michael, You're Going Out? I Knew You--You Would Try for It!
Michael, You're Going Out? I Knew You--You Would Try for It!
Harvey T. Dunn
1913
"I wish you could see yourself; I wish I could tell you how you look."
"I wish you could see yourself; I wish I could tell you how you look."
N.C. Wyeth
1930 / 1931
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
N.C. Wyeth
1916
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
"The sea breeds fighters and that's what I want in the employ of the Blue Star. You two just naturally make me sick at the stomach. Get out!"
"The sea breeds fighters and that's what I want in the employ of the Blue Star. You two just naturally make me sick at the stomach. Get out!"
N.C. Wyeth
1923
The Torrent in the Valley of Glencoe I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me
The Torrent in the Valley of Glencoe
I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me
N.C. Wyeth
1913