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Night Rider

Artist Frank Tenney Johnson (American, 1874 - 1939)

Date1937

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions36 1/8 × 46 1/4 inches (91.8 × 117.5 cm)
Frame: 42 × 52 × 2 1/2 inches (106.7 × 132.1 × 6.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.22.12

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextJohnson developed a specialty of painting nocturnes, paintings of night scenes. His image of the solitary cowboy in the subdued colors of night evokes the romance of the West. It is also a scene of cowboy work because a traditional task was guarding the herd at night.

ProvenancePurchased July 8, 1958 through (C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, New Mexico) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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