“Copyrighted 1902 by P.F. Collier & Son New York,” under signature

VERSO
Entry for Collier prize with title, artist’s name and address

According to Larry Len Peterson, “Entering a contest held by P. F. Collier and Son, Goodwin submitted Hiawatha and the Pearl Feather. His large oil won first prize and was used as the frontispiece for a volume of American Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant.”

PROVENANCE
The Estate of the Artist
Ted & Barbara Goodwin, by descent

LITERATURE
Larry Len Peterson, Philip R. Goodwin: America’s Sporting & Wildlife Artist (Hayden, ID and Tucson, AZ: The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and Settlers West Galleries, 2001), p 15, illustrated print