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The book, Frank Stick Splendid Painter of the Out-of-Doors, will accompany the lot.

According to Michael F. Mordell, “One of his best action scenes, A Critical Moment, was done in 1926 for the Thomas D. Murphy Company. It depicts two men navigating some rough water in their canoe, and the front paddler has raised and aimed his rifle at a swimming, angry, snarling bear half in their canoe, on the attack. It is a dramatic action painting and was reprinted for many years by the company.”

PROVENANCE
Eddie Woodin Company, Portland, ME
The Collection of Robert Drummond, Hayden, ID 2003

LITERATURE
Michael F. Mordell, Frank Stick Splendid Painter of the Out-of-Doors (Tucson, AZ: Settlers West Galleries, 2004), pp 90, 93, 183, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface condition is good. Craquelure in upper-left corner, in sky. Bar marks along bottom and top of painting. Spot of inpainting in upper-right corner. Several spots of inpainting in upper-left corner, in sky. Spot of inpainting above oar.

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