Live Auction 2851American Art
Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939)
Lot 25 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION

Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939)

Singing to the Steers

Closed22 May 2014

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Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939)
Singing to the Steers
signed and dated 'F Tenney Johnson--ANA./1933' (lower left)--signed and dated again, inscribed with title and bears artist's stamp (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)

(Possibly) Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Private collection, New Zealand.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

In the Frank Tenney Johnson archives at the McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Singing to the Steers is captioned: "All is quiet on the bedding grounds, and the lone night herder whiles away the long hours by singing many verses of a plaintive cowboy song. The steers are chewing their cuds in contentment, and all is well on the open range."