Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Herring Gut
Alternate Title(s):Herring Gut Harbor; Harbour, Port Clyde
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1932
Dimensions:
36 1/4 × 40 1/8 in. (92.1 × 101.9 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of John Biggs III, Charles R. Biggs, and Anna B. Pierce, 1982
Accession number: 82.20
Label Copy:
In 1920, Wyeth purchased a sea captain’s house in Port Clyde, Maine; by late in the decade, he found in the coastal scenery and the hearty fisherman renewed inspiration for his personal, non-commissioned work. Here in this view of the harbor at Port Clyde, Wyeth used a skewed perspective, an exaggerated roll of the hills and a bright palette to cast a modernist sheen over a setting that was far removed from "modern"—the industrial or urban scene.
In 1920, Wyeth purchased a sea captain’s house in Port Clyde, Maine; by late in the decade, he found in the coastal scenery and the hearty fisherman renewed inspiration for his personal, non-commissioned work. Here in this view of the harbor at Port Clyde, Wyeth used a skewed perspective, an exaggerated roll of the hills and a bright palette to cast a modernist sheen over a setting that was far removed from "modern"—the industrial or urban scene.
Research Number: NCW: 336
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -1932; lower right: To JACK & ANNA / from N.C.W.
ProvenanceThe artist; John Biggs, Jr. and Anna Rupert Biggs; their children, John Biggs III, Charles R. Biggs, and Anna B. Pierce, to 1982
Exhibition HistoryPossibly Philadelphia, PA, 1935(2), as "Herring Gut Harbor"; possibly West Chester, PA, 1935(2), no. 6, as "Harbour, Port Clyde, 1932"; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 10; Chadds Ford, PA, 1978; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 17, illus. b/w p. 60; Chadds Ford, PA, 1995, no. 15, illus. b/w p. 50; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
C. H. Bonte, "That Gifted Wyeth Family Exhibiting at the Alliance," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 1935, p. SO 9; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 214; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.169, p. 754
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:no credit on transparency