Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
No four-year-old in the county / Could beat him for pretty and strong
Alternate Title(s):Little Breeches; No four-year-old in the country / Could beat him for pretty and strong;
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
32 1/8 × 25 in. (81.6 × 63.5 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Virginia M. Hightower, 1982
Accession number: 82.2
Research Number: NCW: 425
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Nathaniel Wyeth (artist's brother); Private collection, Detroit, MI, ca. late 1930s; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Hightower, Sarasota, FL
Exhibition HistoryProb. Philadelphia, PA, 1913, no. 724, as "Little Breeches"; Elmira, NY, 1985, p. 28; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 4; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 206, b/w illustration p. 129; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 202; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.386, p. 244, as "No four-year-old in the country / ..."
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer