Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Two Pipers in Balquhidder
All night long the brose was going and the pipes changing hands
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
40 1/8 × 32 1/8 in. (101.9 × 81.6 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Russell G. Colt, 1986
Accession number: 86.7.7
Research Number: NCW: 165
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse on canvas in upper left corner: copyright Charles Scribner & Sons; label removed by conservator and encased in plastic; [handwritten] Wyeth, N. C. B5725 / Two Pipers of Balquhidder / All night long the brose was going. / Kidnapped / [printed] THIS COPYRIGHTED PICTURE IS THE / PROPERTY OF CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, AND IS TO BE RETURNED TO THEM / IN GOOD CONDITION / from / SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE / [inserted in ink: 597] 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York; Mr. Russell G. Colt, New York, NY
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 72; Chadds Ford, PA 1990 (1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 206, b/w illustration p. 199; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.476, p. 277
Curatorial RemarksNotes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:No credit on transparency