Mort rode forth boldly toward the sod house

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Mort rode forth boldly toward the sod house
Image Not Available for Mort rode forth boldly toward the sod house

Mort rode forth boldly toward the sod house

Date1926
Illustration Citation"Oklahoma," by Courtney Ryley Cooper, in The Country Gentleman, May 1926.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions26 × 36 1/2 in. (66 × 92.7 cm)
frame: 29 1/2 × 39 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (74.9 × 99.7 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harald de Rapp, 1971
Object number1971-172
On View
On view
Label TextIn this scene from the days of the Oklahoma land rush, a woman struggles to maintain a sod house on the prairie. She denies herself love and a family because she feels responsible for her orphan nephew and his father. Ultimately, circumstances allow her to marry the man she loves, as together they join “the maddened race in the get-away for a new land, a new life.”
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