527
“Teach Two Goats to Play Bridge?”
FES Title: “Teach 2 goats to play bridge”
Alternate Titles:
Date: 09/20/1912
Size: 26″H x 24″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Hay, Ian. “The Return to Nature: An Island Comedy.” American Magazine, February 1913: 41.
caption: “‘But don’t you think,’ continued Mr. Gale, perseveringly, ‘that we might train two goats to play bridge with us, or teach a turtle to sing, or something?'”
Inscription: lr: F.E.S. / ’12
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: “‘But don’t you think,’ continued Mr. Gale, perseveringly, ‘that we might train two goats to play bridge with us, or teach a turtle to sing, or something?'”
Exhibitions:
Comments: TP 3/28/02; 11/4/02; trany redo 11/21/02; NT 4×5; index; edit
cleaned and conserved
[in painting] in 2002
Commentary:
Provenance: Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware; private collection
Current Owner: