Squire Boone Crossing the Mountains with Stores for his Brother Daniel, Encamped in the Wilds of Kentucky, (painting).

Squire Boone Crossing the Mountains with Stores for his Brother Daniel, Encamped in the Wilds of Kentucky, (painting).

Ranney, William Tylee, 1813-1857, painter.

Squire Boone Crossing the Mountains with Stores for his Brother Daniel, Encamped in the Wilds of Kentucky, (painting).

36 x 32 1/2 in.

(Lower right:) W. Ranney/'52 signed

Squire Boone, brother of frontiersman Daniel Boone, is seen seated on his horse leading another horse that is loaded with supplies. Squire and the horses stand atop a mountain plateau, and Squire quietly looks off into the distance. In the background, a large mountain top rises behind them.

Landscape -- Kentucky

Landscape -- Mountain

Portrait male -- Boone, Squire -- Full length

History -- United States -- Westward Expansion

Museum of Fine Arts, 220 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number: 84.06

Formerly in the collection of Nelson, Edward D.,

Travers, John (possibly), Hudson, New York

Tompkins, Robert, Sheffield, Massachusetts 1955.

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts Oct. 1955.

Peabody, Amelia, Boston, Massachusetts Oct. 1955-1984.

Gift of Peabody, Amelia, estate of, 1984.

National Academy of Design Twenty Eighth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1853, (no. 80).

The painting illustrates a story from the legend of Daniel Boone in which Daniel and his brother Squire have camped together in Kentucky, but Squire returns to North Carolina alone for supplies, leaving Daniel to camp by himself. Squire agrees to return to Daniel's camp on July 27, 1770, bringing with him supplies to continue the adventure.

Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.

Grubar, Francis S., "William Ranney, painter of the early west," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1962.

Hills, Patricia, "The American Frontier: Images and Myths," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.

"Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 147-149.

Grubar, F. S., "William Ranney," Corcoran Gallery, Wash., D.C., 1962, no. 66.

Exh. Catalog "American Frontier: Images & Myths," Whitney Mus., New York, New York, 1973, pg. 29.

"Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 147.

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