Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Ahead Rode a Keen-Eyed Man
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 36 1/4 in
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.41
Research Number: NCW: 41
InscribedLower right: W (circled)
ProvenanceCurtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA; Walter R. Bardsley, Philadelphia, PA; Dr. Richard L. Bardsley, Erie, PA; (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1972); Private Collection, Mt. Dora, FL, to 2022; (New York, NY, Sotheby's, July 20, 2022, lot no. 557)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 257-258; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 273; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.251, p. 187
Curatorial RemarksOn June 30, 1908, Wyeth wrote to his mother, "I am at work on the last Post drawings for the Convict story and will freel greatly relieved therefrom. I have done some very poor work for that story, and simply because I was not in sympathy with it" (B. J. Wyeth, ed., ps. 257-258).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:(digitally adjusted) transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum, file photography