Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, inscribed to verso of stretcher, presented in the likely original wood frame.

Stretcher size 24 1/8 x 30 in.; Frame dimensions 31 x 37 in.

From the Collection of Wayne Morrison, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vic Donahue was raised in Omaha and became a newspaper artist before enlisting in World War II, where he became a combat artist. Following the war, he joined the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate in Cleveland, Ohio. He was nominated two times for the Pulitzer Prize for Best Newspaper Feature of the Year. Later, he moved to New York City where he became a book, magazine, and advertising illustrator before turning to painting full-time. In 1962, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he lived and worked until his death in 2008.

His paintings are in the Christlieb Collection at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; the Navy and Marine Collections and the National Archives in Washington DC; the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney; Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island; and the Mountain Oyster Club of Tucson, Arizona.

Good estate condition.