Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Trout Fishing
Alternate Title(s):Bert McCorrison
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1937
Dimensions:
approximately 28 1/2 × 22 in. (72.4 × 55.9 cm)
Location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.1081
Research Number: NCW: 1081
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Exhibition HistoryPortland, ME, 1938
References
Douglas Allen and Dougals Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1228, p. 558
Curatorial RemarksKenneth Roberts's text identifies the fisherman as Bert McCorrison. Albert L. "Bert" McCorrison (died 1931) was a naturalist and resident of Searsmont, Maine, and the inspiration for the fictional character Chet McAusland who lived in author Ben Ames Williams's fictional town of "Fraternity." Williams inherited McCorrison's Searsmont property. It is not known whether Wyeth knew McCorrison personally or visited the property after his death.
The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.132) made from the composition drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel; the N. C. Wyeth studio collection inlcudes a plain white frame (NCWS.95.2211) of the type Wyeth used to protect the edges of his paintings when he crated and shipped them marked in pencil: "Maine Trout Fishing."
The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.132) made from the composition drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel; the N. C. Wyeth studio collection inlcudes a plain white frame (NCWS.95.2211) of the type Wyeth used to protect the edges of his paintings when he crated and shipped them marked in pencil: "Maine Trout Fishing."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from painting