Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Untitled (Chadds Ford landscape, unfinished or abandoned sketch)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1912-1920
Dimensions:
16 × 20 1/8 in. (40.6 × 51.1 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.58
Label Copy:
In this very early depiction of Chadds Ford, N.C. Wyeth examines the landscape around his new home. Though Wyeth settled in nearby Wilmington, Delaware, Chadds Ford was the location of famed illustrator Howard Pyle's summer school, which Wyeth attended. Having only recently moved from Needham, Massachusetts, he painted this work to send back home to his parents to show them his new surroundings. After Wyeth married Carolyn Bockius, the couple moved to Chadds Ford in 1908, where the Wyeth would eventually build a home and raise their family.
Research Number: NCW: 948
Inscribednone
ProvenanceThe artsit; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1994
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.109, p. 733
Curatorial RemarksThis is an abandoned work, which may have been subsequently defaced by the addition of four lines seemingly irrelevant to the design. The date range is based on stylistic similarities with other landscapes in the period.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from art work
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/29/2006