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Dean Cornwell
desert healer
 
'DESERT HEALER'

1922, oil on canvas
36" x 28", signed and dated
lower right

Cosmopolitan magazine,
1922, "The Desert Healer"
by E.M. Hull

‘Hour after hour Carew lay motionless his ears, in the warm sand, the blood beating in his brain on fire.’

Dean Cornwell - Dean of Illustrators by Patricia Janis Broder, p. 71