Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
In Penobscot Bay, composition drawing
Alternate Title(s):The Doryman, composition drawing;
Medium: Charcoal and graphite on paper
Date: 1944
Dimensions:
30 1/4 × 54 3/8 in. (76.8 × 138.1 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.531
Label Copy:
While N. C. Wyeth continued to devote studio hours to mural and illustration work, he spent more time in his later years on his personal painting, creating large canvases and panels that usually depicted his two worlds of Chadds Ford and Port Clyde. The charcoal and graphite in which Wyeth rendered this composition drawing give a sense of the tonality of the finished work, a tempera painting now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
While N. C. Wyeth continued to devote studio hours to mural and illustration work, he spent more time in his later years on his personal painting, creating large canvases and panels that usually depicted his two worlds of Chadds Ford and Port Clyde. The charcoal and graphite in which Wyeth rendered this composition drawing give a sense of the tonality of the finished work, a tempera painting now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Research Number: NCW: 2060
InscribedLower right: N. C. W. 44; on verso: Walt / off Caldwells
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; Estate of Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 2003
Curatorial RemarksThis is the composition drawing for "In Penobscot Bay," a tempera on panel (NCW 331) of 1944. The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection includes a study for the image drawn on tracing paper (NCW 2246.415) and two related studies of the dory (NCW 2202 and NCW 2246.9).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer