Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Forsythe's Hill
Alternate Title(s):Forsyth's Hill
Alternate Title(s):Untitled (View of Forseythe's Hill, Chadds Ford)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
16 1/4 × 20 1/8 in. (41.3 × 51.1 cm)
Private Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.533
Research Number: NCW: 533
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1912; on reverse in red: TO MARY: / MORAL- ALWAYS PAINT ANTIQUE / FURNITURE WHITE (white underlined),-AND / BEGIN WITH THE LEGS (legs underlined)!! / N.C.W. (underlined) / 1916; on bottom stretcher member, upside down: FORSYTHES HILL 23
ProvenanceThe artist to 1916; gift to Mary Wallace Baldwin, Chadds Ford, PA, and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 21 as "Forsyth's Hill" (sic); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.64, p. 719
Curatorial RemarksThis is the view north of Chadds Ford looking west across the Brandywine to Forsythe's Hill and farm. The hill was one of the artist's favorite motifs at this time.
The painting is marked on the bottom stretcher member in the same notation found on other paintings exhibited at the Sketch Club in 1912. There must have been substitutions after the printing of the brochure, because the numbers in the brochure and the numbers found on the stretchers are off by one or two consecutive numbers.
The painting is marked on the bottom stretcher member in the same notation found on other paintings exhibited at the Sketch Club in 1912. There must have been substitutions after the printing of the brochure, because the numbers in the brochure and the numbers found on the stretchers are off by one or two consecutive numbers.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2002