Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Rocky Hill
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1911/1912
Dimensions:
25 × 30 1/8 in. (63.5 × 76.5 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.10
Research Number: NCW: 936
InscribedOn reverse, along top stretcher in pencil: Painted by N. C. Wyeth / Betsy J. Wyeth; on side stretcher, in black block letters: ROCKY HILL / No. 6; adhered to stretcher, remnants of red-edged gummed label approx. 2 1/2 x 1 1/4"; on opposite side stretcher: 2 (circled); All four stretcher keys are marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 5 as "Rocky Hill"; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.61, p. 718, 719
Curatorial RemarksThe date of the painting is based on Wyeth's purchase of the Rocky Hill property in Chadds Ford in March 1911, and the assumption that this is the work exhibited in November 1912. On all of the paintings that have been identified as being in the Sketch Club exhibition, the numbers differ by one or two from those in the printed brochure.
Examination by conservator Joyce Hill Stoner (June 2009) suggests that this is a reused canvas, and that the underpainting was a landscape oriented 180 degrees from the present work.
Examination by conservator Joyce Hill Stoner (June 2009) suggests that this is a reused canvas, and that the underpainting was a landscape oriented 180 degrees from the present work.