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Taking of Sam Bass by Frank Mechau
Photo CreditGSA\Steve Kline
Taking of Sam Bass
Photo CreditGSA\Steve Kline

Taking of Sam Bass

Artist
Year1940
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions97" x 137"
Credits Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • 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.