WILLIAM HENRY DETHLEF KOERNER | Buckskin and Foofaraw

The artist
By descent (sold: Sotheby's New York, April 23, 2015, lot 158)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, 1994

The Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1932, illustrated

The canvas is lined and the tacking edges are trimmed. There is frame abrasion with some associated loss at edges. There is scattered fine surface cracking and a few pindots of possible surface accretion. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion at edges and a few scattered pindots in the grass.
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The present work appeared in the February 13, 1932 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, accompanying a short story by Steward Edward White titled "Ranchero."