GAYLE PORTER HOSKINS (American, 1887-1962). "Tain't 'cause they don't want us, Nobbs. It's 'cause we're inel'gible" (Nobbs...

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GAYLE PORTER HOSKINS (American, 1887-1962)
"Tain't 'cause they don't want us, Nobbs. It's 'cause we're inel'gible" (Nobbs laid his nose on the patched knee, wagged an understanding tail, and waited. Waiting was Nobbs' job), Good Housekeeping magazine story illustration, 1922
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 inches (63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Signed lower left: Gayle Hoskins

PROVENANCE:
Arlene Hoskins;
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, by bequest from the above;
Deaccessioned from the above, 1993;
Private collection, New York.

LITERATURE:
C.E. Lewis "The Ineligibles," Good Housekeeping magazine, July 1922.



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