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But Now He Preferred to Go Slowly, and He Was Talking at His Fluent Best
But Now He Preferred to Go Slowly, and He Was Talking at His Fluent Best
But Now He Preferred to Go Slowly, and He Was Talking at His Fluent Best

But Now He Preferred to Go Slowly, and He Was Talking at His Fluent Best

Artist (American, 1878 - 1936)
Date1914
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions29 1/8 × 19 inches (74 × 48.3 cm)
Frame: 33 × 22 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (83.8 × 57.8 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.21.42
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextDunton’s painting seems to be another romantic couple, going for a horseback ride. It illustrated a short story in Cosmopolitan magazine. The painting shows the scene when a young woman went for a ride with a mine owner’s nephew. The story leads to a different conclusion. The nephew, the fluent talker, induced her to go into a deserted cabin. He would have overwhelmed her, but another man intervened and saved her. Did Dunton’s painting offer any clues of impending danger? Or, did he want the viewer to be deceived as the horsewoman was? William Herbert Dunton’s But Now He Preferred to Go Slowly, and He Was Talking at His Fluent Best and Don Russell’s Anthony Neuluis and Tarna Rena.
ProvenanceH.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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