Cornwell, Dean

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Cornwell, Dean

Price: $12,500.00

Description: Couple lost in the woods

Comment: Trust me when I say that it was a bit of a bear to puzzle out where this appeared in print, but I think it can make a difference to know these sorts of details when offering a picture. To distill the story without ruining it. The married couple shown don’t exactly see eye-to-eye and when their car breaks down far from help they must put aside their differences to get help. I brought this with me to the Windy City Pulp and Paper show recently. It seemed that there were pretty much always people looking at it (which, after all, was the point). It wasn’t the right crowd for the picture but was interesting to see evidence that even people who don’t particularly know Cornwell’s brushwork respond to it more than a century after it was created.

Price: $12,500 (includes domestic shipping)

Information

Artist	Dean Cornwell (1892-1960)
Caption	“Dr. Ingersoll wrote a message that began with the medical R and left it for the chauffeur on the stalled car. Almost immediately afterward they set out for the Hunters cabin, and after a stiff mile of scrambling, they found it. There was no one about the little locked and deserted place, but it was a shelter.”
Condition	Very small chip of loss between the two figures… freshly reframed in a simple floater arrangement. I do also have the frame in which it came, which I’m thinking is not from the time of publication. It’s a rather large and not-all-that appealing affair.
Medium	Oil on canvas
Publication Information	Story illustration for “Engine Trouble” by Kathleen Norris appearing in Good Housekeeping magazine for July/August, 1920.
Signature	Signed lower center
Size	28 x 36”