Johnny's Fight With Cherry

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Johnny's Fight With Cherry
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Johnny's Fight With Cherry

Date1928
Illustration CitationDrums, by James W. Boyd (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
frame: 44 × 36 in. (111.8 × 91.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willis du Pont, 1960
Object number1960-17
On View
Not on view
Label TextA novel about the American Revolution, Drums centers on rural North Carolinian Johnny Fraser. Here Johnny -- observed by fellow urchins -- is about to get the best of an elegantly dressed opponent. The book was the fifteenth that Wyeth illustrated in the Scribner Illustrated Classics, a series of rousing fictional adventure stories.




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