Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.548
Research Number: NCW: 548
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 1125, dated 8.17.42; written on panel label: The Battle of / Bunker Hill / # 7; painted on reverse of panel: "Bunker Hill." / # 4 (crossed out)
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: U. S. Naval Academy, 1961), no. 213, p. 13; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 291; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.159, p. 690, 691
Curatorial RemarksA composition drawing for this image (NCW 1534) is privately owned. The Brandywine River Museum holds an archival photograph of the painting annotated on the reverse in the artist's hand "IV Bunker Hill"; and a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.145) used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley, 1/2006