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The Weak Never Started, (painting). Artist:  Boundy, J. M., painter. Wimar, Charles Ferdinand, 1828-1862, painter. (copy after) Title:  The Weak Never Started, (painting). Dates:  1861. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  35 3/4 x 52 5/8 in. Inscription:  (Lower left corner:) J. M. Boundy Oct. 19, 1861 signed Description:  Indians on foot and horseback attack an American pioneer wagon train. Wagon, foreground, contains wounded youth, two women, and man shooting a rifle at Indians approaching from flank. Prairie landscape. Subject:  History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Travel -- Land -- Wagon Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon Ethnic -- Indian Western History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Object Type:  Copy Painting Owner:  On loan to University of Texas at Austin, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 1 University Station D1303, Austin, Texas 78712 Lent by Smith, C. R., New York, New York Remarks:  Painting is a copy after Charles Ferdinand Wimar's The Attack on an Emigrant Train" (1856). Boundy probably worked from a related lithograph entitled "On the Prairie." Lent to the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in 1981. References:  Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1991. Saunders, Richard H., "Collecting the West: The C. R. Smith Collection of Western American Art," Austin: University Of Texas Press, 1988, pg. 67. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 50080010   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 50080010 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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