Taking of Sam Bass
Artist
Frank Mechau
Year1940
Classification
painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions97" x 137"
Credits
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. General Services Administration
- Three men at left wearing gunbelts, hats, and spurs on boots and standing on porch of wooden building face three men at right, two on horseback. Man in middle at left holds rifle in right hand. Men flanking man in middle left have moustaches. Three men wearing hats at right face three men at left. Man in middle on horse at right has has moustache and goatee, and man in middle at right on horse has moustache. Man at left on right faces away from viewer. Parital wooden general store in background, with wooden signs which read "...HOP", "Kopperel's...Merchandise." Partial adobe building at right picture plane.