Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Last of the Mohicans, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
30 × 43 in. (76.2 × 109.2 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Given in memory of Raymond Platt Dorland by his children, 1973
Accession number: 73.1
Research Number: NCW: 193
InscribedLower left: N.C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY (sold through Scribner's Retail Dept.); (?); Percival J. McIntosh, Old Forge, NY, to 1941; Raymond P. Dorland, Old Forge, NY; descended in family to l973
Exhibition HistoryBrookings, SD, 1973, no. 18; Westmoreland County Art Assoc., "Ligonier Valley Bicentennial Art Show," 19 July-6 Aug. 1976; Princeton, NJ, 1977, no. 27; William Penn Memorial Museum, "A Salute to Pennsylvania's Artistic Heritage," 16 Mar.-13 May 1979; Easton, MD, Academy of the Arts, "America's Storytellers: N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle", Dec. 2, 1999 - Jan. 22, 2000; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth's Collection of Firearms and Edged Weapons, " Jan. 23- May 17, 2009; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, and Cincinnati, OH, Taft Museum, Feb. 8-May 3, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 155
References
Augustus D. Shepard, Camps in the Woods (New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1931), p. 65; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 201; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 210, b/w illustration p. 203; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), color illustration after p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.747, p. 381. Kristine K. Ronan, "Painting Print: N. C. Wyeth's Illustrations for The Last of the Mohicans (1919)" in Jessica May and Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives" (Brandywine River Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, 2019), p. 53, fig. 11 detail, p. 54, fig. 12, detail and p. 57, fig. 13; Peter Ker, "The Complicated Legacy of N. C. Wyeth," PMA Magazine (Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art), Fall 2019, illus. p. 23
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and marked an edition published by A. L. Burt (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4334).
Information about the first owner of the painting, and about the photograph of it hanging in an Adirondack camp designed by Augustus D. Shepard, courtesy of Edward Comstock, Jr., Saranac Lake, NY.
Information about the first owner of the painting, and about the photograph of it hanging in an Adirondack camp designed by Augustus D. Shepard, courtesy of Edward Comstock, Jr., Saranac Lake, NY.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:2. The painting as it hung in the writing room of the Adirondack camp of Percival J. McIntosh, from Augustus D. Shepard, Camps in the Woods (Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1931), p. 65