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Verso:
Label, Somerville Manning Gallery, Breck’s Mill, Deleware
Label, Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection
James Cronley Collection
John Dell (editor, Watson-Guptil publishers) Collection
Private Collection, Delaware

EXHIBITIONS:
N. C. Wyeth’s Wild West, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

LITERATURE:
Edwin Bliss, “The Lost Vein” All Around Magazine (New York, NY: Street & Smith Corp., February 1916), front cover, illustrated
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), pages 249, 253
John Edward Dell ed., Visions of Adventure; N.C Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), pages 98-99, illustrated
Christine Podmaniczky ed., N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné (The Wyeth Foundation, 2008), # I - 574 ( 466 ), page 309

Condition ReportPainting has been lined. Surface condition is very good. Faint bar marks on left, right, and top sides. Seven large spots of inpainting in upper-right corner, abutting the frame. Inpainting on stretcher bar marks along left and right sides. Nine spots of inpainting along top-center portion. Multiple small spots of inpainting in upper-left corner. Multiple spots of inpainting in lower-left corner. Multiple spots of inpainting along bottom-center portion. Multiple spots of inpainting behind dog’s back leg and on miner’s leg.

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