Tell Me a Story: The Art of American Illustration | Property of a Private California Collection
MAXFIELD PARRISH | THE RAWHIDE PART III, HE SWUNG HIMSELF INTO THE SADDLE AND RODE AWAY
Auction Closed
June 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Property of a Private California Collection
MAXFIELD PARRISH
1870 - 1966
THE RAWHIDE PART III, HE SWUNG HIMSELF INTO THE SADDLE AND RODE AWAY
signed with initials M·P (lower right); also signed again Maxfield Parrish, dated August of 1904. and inscribed “The Oaks”/Windsor: Vermont. (on the reverse); also inscribed “Rawhide”. Part III. last paragraph./”Then he swung himself into the saddle and rode away straight down/the narrow arroyo, out beyond its lower wi*ing, into the vast/plain the hither side of the Chiracahuas…Then/suddenly he was gone. The desert had swallowed him up.” (on an original label affixed to the stretcher)
oil on paper mounted on board
16 by 12 ⅛ inches
(40.6 by 30.8 cm)
Betsey P.C. Purves
Estate of the above
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Private collection, Pennsylvania (sold: Christie's, New York, March 14, 2011, lot 148)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
New York, Gallery of Modern Art, 1964
Stewart Edward White, "The Rawhide," McClure's Magazine, January 1905, illustrated as a frontispiece
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, no. 387, p. 210