Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Indian Brave Fishing; Indian Fisherman
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1116
Research Number: NCW: 1116
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceIvan N. Podgoursky, to 1962; Walter Reed Bimson, 1962-at least 1971; Valley National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; by corporate merger, Bank One, Chicago, IL; (New York, NY, Christie's, May 23, 2017, lot no. 43);
Exhibition HistoryTucson, AZ, University of Arizona Museum of Art, "The West and Walter Bimson," 1971, no numbers p. 221 and illustration p. 157, as "Indian Brave Fishing"; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 68, as "Indian Fisherman" (credit line in error)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; ______, Illustrator's Source Book (London: Macdonald & Co., 1990), color illustration p. 127; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.965, p. 456
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2005