WILLIAM FREDERICK RITSCHEL (AMERICAN, 1864-1949) Desert Wanderer, Navajo signed and dated 'W. Ritschel / 1912' (lower left), signed again, titled, inscribed, and dated '.DESERT.WANDERER. / (NAVAJOS) W. RITSCHEL. / NEW.YORK / 1912.' (on the reverse) oil on canvas tacked over panel 47 5/8 x 58in framed 62 x 71 3/4in Painted in 1912. Footnotes: From Diane Keaton's sitting room in her Beverly Hills home. Provenance The artist; The Society of the Friends of American Art, purchased from the above and presented to The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1912; Christie's, Beverly Hills, California, Western and American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 14 June 2006, Lot 21; Acquired from the above by the prior owner. Literature The Spring Academy, The Brooklyn Eagle, 14 March 1912, p. 4; Eight More Pictures Sold, The Sun, 7 April 1912, p. 9; Academy Pictures $21,900, The Sun, 25 April 1912, p. 14; The Fine Arts, Boston Evening Transcript, 29 July 1912, p. 11; Art and Artists, The New Bedford Sunday Standard, 18 August 1912, p. 9; Hoe Library Sales To Enliven Season, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 September 1912, p. 26; Art, The Chicago Daily Tribune, 12 May 1916, p. 20; Art, Chicago Sunday Tribune, 30 May 1920, Part 7, p. 5; The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, Part II: Paintings, 1923, no. 412, p. 47; Clarke, Gerald. (2017, August 24). Inside Diane Keaton's House in Beverly Hills. Architectural Digest, image no. 5. Exhibition Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition. National Academy of Design, New York, 09 March - 14 April 1912, no. 186, pg. 26 (as 'Desert Wanderers (Navajo)'); Boston Art Club, Boston, Massachusetts, n.d; Anglo-American Exhibition, London, England, 1914; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1916, 1920, 1923. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing