Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (landscape study, Chadds Ford)
Alternate Title(s):The Meadow Brook
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1916
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1660
Research Number: NCW: 1660
References
N. C. Wyeth, "The Illustrator and His Development," The American Art Student, vol. 1 nos. 3-4 (Nov.-Dec. 1916), illus. in b/w p. 6, as "Landscape Study"; Alexis Everett Frye, Brooks and Brook Basins: The Brooklet's Story (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1927), frontispiece illus. in color as "The Meadow Brook"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.101, p. 731
Curatorial RemarksThe painting is dated by its publication date and similarity with NCW 2121 although it could have been painted several years earlier. Captioned "Landscape Study," it must have been considered by the artist an important step in his development; he selected the work as one of two landscapes to illustrate his article "The Illustrator and His Development." He explained the technique in a letter to Sidney M. Chase (NCW to Sidney Chase, April 19, 1916, WFA, and published in Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1882-1945, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 523).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed image (Brandywine River Museum library collection)
Photo Credit:BRM staff