2017 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 233
233
W. H. D. Koerner (1878 – 1938)
Toward a Life of Their Own (1929)
oil on canvas
28 × 40 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Written in the artist’s hand, “Tomahawks Rights #4: With eager hearts and high hopes they were riding toward that land of promise that lies always just ahead”
Stamp: “Estate of W.H.D. Koerner (1878-1938) Interlaken, New Jersey”
LITERATURE
Hal G. Evarts, “Tomahawk Rights,” Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 201 (Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing Co., April 1929), illustrated halftone
W.H. Hutchinson, The World, the Work & the West of W. H. D. Koerner (Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1978), p 222
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Janesville, WI