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Property from a Distinguished American Western Collection N.C. Wyeth 1882 - 1945 "Waite seized him and swung him on high..." (Bar-room Brawl) signed Convers Wyeth and indistinctly dedicated To Daniel McLaughlin / From … Chadds Ford, Pa. / 1923 (upper left) oil on canvas 22 by 34 in. 55.9 by 86.4 cm. Executed in 1915.

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"waite seized him and swung him on high..." (bar-room brawl)

Illustration of Rip Van Winkle by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=N.C.+Wyeth&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">N.C. Wyeth</a>.<ul><li>Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945).</li><li>Philadelphia:&nbsp;David McKay Company,&nbsp;c. 1921.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> A charming pen-and-ink sketch of Rip Van Winkle inscribed to Veronica S. Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a Carnegie Institute of Technology-trained librarian who worked first as a children's librarian at the Cleveland Public Library before joining the rare book department of the upscale department store, Halle Brothers Co., where she worked for over 40 years.

Ink drawing of Rip Van Winkle

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signed</a> limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first Wyeth edition</a>, one of 1074 numbered copies signed by both <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=N.C.%20Wyeth&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wyeth</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kenneth%20Roberts&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roberts</a>.<ul><li>Kenneth Roberts (American).</li><li>Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;Little Brown,&nbsp;1938.</li><li>[16], 395, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Wyeth with 15 color plates and an extra suite of color plates in original envelope.</li><li>Signed by Wyeth and Roberts on limitation page, numbered 949, matching number on slipcase.</li><li>Quarter white cloth, blue cloth boards, in original plain paper wrapper and slipcase with paper label, fore-edge and bottom edge machine deckle, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul>

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