Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Untitled (N. C. Wyeth's Home, Chadds Ford)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912/1913
Dimensions:
16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.62
Research Number: NCW: 903
InscribedWritten on stretcher in black: 44
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1994
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.75, p. 721
Curatorial RemarksThis work depicts the house Wyeth built on Rocky Hill, south of the village of Chadds Ford; the family moved into the house in October 1911. An x-radiograph of the canvas showed there was no image under the surface painting (Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation project, March 2004). The number on the stretcher corresponds to number 44 in Carolyn Wyeth's early 1970s inventory of the paintings in her father's studio, "N. C. Wyeth's Home, Chadds Ford" (Brandywine River Museum library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2004