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Boone's Daughter
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William Henry Dethlef Koerner (1878-1938)
Boone's Daughter
signed and dated 'W.H.D./Koerner/1930' (lower left)--inscribed 'The Long Rifle - The Grandmother/-at the time Jemima Boone and three other girls were carried off by the savages' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
28 x 40 in. (71.1 x 101.6 cm.)
Boone's Daughter
signed and dated 'W.H.D./Koerner/1930' (lower left)--inscribed 'The Long Rifle - The Grandmother/-at the time Jemima Boone and three other girls were carried off by the savages' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
28 x 40 in. (71.1 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist, Interlaken, New Jersey, no. 118.
Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Literature
S.E. White, "The Long Rifle, The Grandmother," Saturday Evening Post, December 30, 1930, illustrated.