"So you come alone!" Mary exclaimed.
Date1929
Artist
Dan Content
(American illustrator, 1902–1990)
Illustration Citation"The Sieve of the Gods," by Frederick Orin Bartlett, in Good Housekeeping, February 1930
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 1/4 × 37 1/4 in. (99.7 × 94.6 cm)
frame: 46 1/4 × 44 3/8 in. (117.5 × 112.7 cm)
frame: 46 1/4 × 44 3/8 in. (117.5 × 112.7 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1984
Object number1984-6
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn a story about isolated Canadian trappers, this woman confronts a man who had promised to fetch a doctor for her father, who was ill at their campground. In the interim, the doctor has refused to come and her father has died. But she so admires the man who risked his life at her request that they become friends and are eventually married. The woman is portrayed as resilient and self-reliant but still open to romance, a message that would have been appreciated by the readers of Good Housekeeping, which balanced social activism that advanced women's causes with sentimental fiction. Dan Content is primarily known for his illustrations of adventure stories. His work was influenced by that of his teacher, Dean Cornwell, who had studied with Howard Pyle student Harvey Dunn.
