Gunfight, (painting).

Gunfight, (painting).

Wyeth, Newell Convers, 1882-1945, painter.

Gunfight, (painting).

33 1/2 x 24 5/8 in.

Illustration depicting a violent scene of a dying cowboy draped across another cowboy as he fires his pistol at the head of a third cowboy trying to duck for cover, while a fourth cowboy aims his pistol at the shooter.

Literature -- Spearman -- Nan of Music Mountain

Architecture interior

Figure group -- Male

Occupation -- Other -- Cowboy

State of Being -- Evil -- Violence

Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, Colorado 80204

Formerly in the collection of Harmsen, William, Sr., & Dorothy,

Gift of Harmsen, Dorothy, 2001.

Illustration for Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. Spearman, first published in 1916.

"Sweet on the West: How Candy Built a Colorado Treasure," Denver, CO: Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2003, pg. 52.

"Sweet on the West: How Candy Built a Colorado Treasure," Denver, CO: Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2003, pg. 53.

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