(WYETH N C ORIGINAL DRAWING) Horses Head

Sale 1922 - Lot 409

Price Realized: $ 1,610

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(WYETH, N. C.--ORIGINAL DRAWING.) Horse's Head. Sketch of a horse's head, reclining. Image measures 230x175 mm, matted and framed with the illustration by Frank Schoonover for whom it was drawn, and a Typed Letter Signed by Douglas Allen [Sr.], explaining the provenance; frame measures 440x750 mm. Image with several cellotape marks from verso bleeding through, affects small portion of image. Not examined out of frame. Ex-collection Douglas Allen. [Wilmington, De., circa 1905]

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The accompanying undated letter from Allen explains that, in the late 1960s, he often visited the Brandywine illustrator Frank Schoonover, who showed him this image and shared its story. Schoonover explained that, in 1905, while illustrating an image of a dead horse for a Hopalong Cassidy book, he encountered difficulty in getting the angle of the animal's head just right. His friend N. C. Wyeth, who had just returned from a trip west and had drawn similar images, solved Schoonover's problem with this helpful drawing. Schoonover completed the illustration and placed one of Wyeth's hats in the corner of the image as an homage. Allen explains that he acquired the sketch some years later.<