1296r
Approaching Camp
FES Title: Pg. 119 Doublespread “He does not know he ees dead man”
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Date: 04/27/1924
Size: 31″H x 25″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-lincanvas
Type: illustration
Published: Marsh, George T. “The Valley of Voices.” Red Book Magazine, July 1924: 64-65.
caption: That a canoe should draw the population to the shore was strange. “They may think we’re a police canoe,” suggested Steele.

Pyle, Howard, N. C. Wyeth, John Edward Dell, and Walt Reed. Visions of Adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000: 90.
caption: “That a canoe should draw the population to the shore was strange. ‘They may think we’re a police canoe,’ suggested Steele.” Illustration for “Valley of Voices” by George T. Marsh, Redbook Magazine, 1924 – oil on canvas, 31×25″, signed lower right.
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Comments: relined, new stretchers
[view 11-03-2007] DAM scan; edit
Commentary: This painting is the right half of a doublespread.
Provenance: Sold by artist to Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer, Wall, New Jersey; Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware; Jack Dell, St. Augustine, Florida; gifted to private collection (c.1997); Sotheby’s, New York, Lot 87 (February-March 2021)