Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Little Cowboy Takes a Licking
signed with initials in monogram 'JCLeyendecker' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31 x 24 in. (78.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1938.
Provenance
The artist. John W. Mettler, New Brunswick, New Jersey, (probably) acquired from the above. By descent to the present owner.
Literature
The Saturday Evening Post, August 20, 1938, cover illustration. J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1995, p. 167, illustrated. L.S. Cutler, J.G. Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 166, illustrated.
Lot Essay
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the August 20th, 1938 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.