Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Thoreau and the Fox (composition drawing, endpaper design for Men of Concord)
Alternate Title(s):Fox in the Snow
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1935
Dimensions:
28 × 41 in. (71.1 × 104.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.205
Research Number: NCW: 205
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH; lower left: SKETCH for THOREAU and the FOX / To ANN from PA. Dec. 25, 1942
ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Wyeth McCoy, 1942 - 2005; descended in family; [Rockland, ME, Dowling Walsh Gallery, 2016]
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds a lantern slide of the drawing (NCWS.95.1825.102) used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel (NCW 919).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w photography directly from artwork