The Assistant was Held Down with a Forked Stick while a Buck Bound his Tail to a Driver Picket, for “Whistling Sandy,” by Roy Norton, in Everybody’s Magazine, August 1906
1906
Will Crawford
born Washington, D.C., 1869; died Free Acres, New Jersey, 1944
Ink on Bristol board
16 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (41.6 x 52.7 cm)
Framed: 25 1/2 x 29 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (64.8 x 75.6 x 5.7 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Bruce Leven
2018.5.9
Provenance: The artist; to Ridgeway Thayer Company, publishers of Everybody’s Magazine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, probably 1906; [Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York], by June 1968, as In the Hands of the Apache; consigned to [Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts], 1981, as In the Land of the Apache; private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, to 1987; sold to [Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts] as In the Land of the Apache; sold to [A. J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington] and [Joseph T. Berlin Fine Arts, Polson, Montana], Aug. 1990; sold to private collection, Montana; sold to [Joseph T. Berlin Fine Arts, Polson, Montana] and [A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington]; purchased by Bruce Leven (1938-2017), Seattle, Washington; Estate of Bruce Leven; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2018
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
