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Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 – 1939)
Coyote Nocturne
oil on canvas
30 × 40 inches
39 × 49 × 3.5 inches (framed)
signed lower left

Family photographs reproduced in Harold McCracken’s The Frank Tenney Johnson Book: A Master Painter of the Old West show Johnson’s wife, Vinnie, posing with her pet coyote.

PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist
Private collection, Oceanside, California
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, California, 1997
Las Vegas Antique Arms Show, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2012
Private collection, Glorieta, New Mexico

250

Frank Tenney Johnson

1874 – 1939

Coyote Nocturne
oil on canvas
30 × 40 inches
39 × 49 × 3.5 inches (framed)
signed lower left
$20,000 – 30,000
Condition ReportSurface is in good condition. Faint bar marks along left and right sides. Faint cracking in the mountains. Spots of inpainting upper-left corner, including in the cloud. Small spots of inpainting in top-center and lower left corner, near edge of frame.

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