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William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955)
West Virginia Woodchopper [or] West Virginia Farm Boy (1903)
oil on canvas
37 × 49 inches
signed and dated lower left

VERSO
Label, University of Arizona
Label with title (partial)

According to Leigh biographer June DuBois, “During the summers between 1899 and 1903, the year of his divorce [from Anna Seng whom he married in 1899], Leigh traveled as often as he could to West Virginia. ‘I was not idle during those summers in Martinsburg,’ he says. ‘I painted a composition which I entitled Loitering. ... I shifted my field of action to the mountains and the whole troop of us, including my mother and sister, went to Boomery, Hampshire County, West Virginia, where I painted a life-size, full-length portrait of my cousin Sophie Colston. The next season I painted a wood interior and the next summer a woodchopper with a wagon and team.’”

LITERATURE
June DuBois, W. R. Leigh The Definitive Illustrated Biography (Kansas City, MO: The Lowell Press, 1977), p 1, illustrated

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William R. Leigh

1866 – 1955

West Virginia Woodchopper [or] West Virginia Farm Boy (1903)
oil on canvas
37 × 49 inches
signed and dated lower left
Sold at Auction: $297,500
Condition ReportSurface condition is good. Painting has been lined. Several hairline cracks throughout. Several spots of inpainting throughout. [See photos below].

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