2017 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 144
144
W. H. D. Koerner (1878 – 1938)
The Pitcher and the Well (1925)
oil on canvas
28 × 40 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Caption
In the Saturday Evening Post story, the caption reads, “And to Remind You of Me,” She Says, Not Even Looking at Cas. “And Don’t Forget Me After You’ve Et it Either.”
A copy of the story will accompany the lot.
PROVENANCE
The Artist
Lillian Koerner (his wife), gifted to
Donald LeRoy Pyle, Interlaken, NJ 1930s
Present owners, by descent
LITERATURE
Kennett Harris, “The Pitcher and the Well,” Saturday Evening Post, Vol 198, No. 22 (Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing Co., Nov 28, 1925), p 11, 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