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On Went the Steam Wagon Through the Parting Waves of Wheat
FES Title: on went the steam wagon through the parting waves of wheat
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Date: 10/10/1924
Size: 32″H x 44″W
Medium: oil-Russian-Linen
Type: illustration
Published: Ritchie, Robert Wells. “Wheat.” Country Gentleman, November 15, 1924: 3.
caption: Now Luke and Helga were abreast of the living spearhead of fire driving to cross their course and envelop them.
Inscription: lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’24
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: Illustration for Part 3 No. 1324 Oct. 1924. Chap X: “On went the steam wagon through the parting waves of wheat. Now they were about abreast of the hissing spearhead driving to cross their course and envelope them.”
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Provenance: Artist to Robert Wells Ritchie, Carmel California
[1924]; private collection, Los Angeles, California [1943]; private collection, Studio City, California [1973]; Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco [1987]; Grand Central Art Gallery, New York; private collection