Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Dying Winter
Alternate Title(s):Three Crows on a Fence
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1934
Dimensions:
42 1/4 × 46 3/8 in. (107.3 × 117.8 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 1982
Accession number: 82.11
Research Number: NCW: 408
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); On reverse, (Knoedler's) label: NO. 54857 / PICTURE
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1973 (with Knoedler Galleries, NY, 1956 - 1968, # 54857); Carolyn Wyeth to 1982
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1935(2); Chicago, IL, 1935, no. 233, p. 21, illustration; Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 18; Washington, DC, 1946, no. 9; New York, NY, 1957, no. 26, as "Three Crows on a Fence"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 14 p. 42, illus. b/w p. 38; New York City, East Side Antiques Show, "A Brandywine Collection from the Brandywine River Museum," Jan. 24 - Feb. 4, 1985; New York, 1985, no. 2; Chadds Ford, PA, 1992; Chadds Ford, PA, 1995, no. 19 p. 47, illustration in b/w p. 57; Louisville, KY, 1998, no. 8, illustration in b/w p. 4; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 58; Akron, OH, Akron Museum of Art, June 15 - Sept. 1, 2002, and Lawrence, KS, Spencer Museum of Art, Sept. 21 - Nov. 17, 2002, "N. C. Wyeth from the Brandywine River Museum Collection"; New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art, "Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators, 1850-1950," Dec. 12, 2008 - Feb. 22, 2009 (also Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, Sept. 6 - Nov. , 2008);
References
C. H. Bonte, "That Gifted Wyeth Family Exhibiting at the Alliance," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 1935, p. SO 9; Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 85; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy), ps. 198 and 214, illustration in color p. 213; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.178, p. 757-758
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds a composition drawing (NCW 1538, 85.2) for this painting and a lantern slide made from the painting (NCWS.95.252).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
On view