FRED LUDEKENS. "He Brought The Gun Up and Fired Twice, Aiming Low." Illustration for "Outlaw's Reckoning" by Ernest Haycox, published in The Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949. Watercolor and gouache on board. 213x688mm; 8 1/4x27 inches, on 14x27 1/2-inch board. Signed "Fred Ludekens" in lower right image. Inscription in margin reads: "It was the sheriff whom Taggart remembered-the sheriff's moment of hesitation...as he fired twice at Cort's squared body." Taped to board, matted, and framed.
