Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Driving the Last Spike in the Transcontinental Railroad
Alternate Title(s):The Last Spike
The West is bound to the East by ties of steel. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad, 1869
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1794
Research Number: NCW: 1794
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 18 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceChristine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.707, p. 365
References
William J. Long, America, A History of Our Country (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1923), color illus. f. p. 410; The American Printer, vol. 83, no. 1 (July 1926), illus.; Edward J. F. Glavin, ed., The Howitzer of 1927, Annual of the U. S. Corps of Cadets, (West Point, NY: U. S. Military Academy, 1927), illustrated between pages 224 and 225 (BRMA, Annenberg Research Center, # ); Thomas Bonaventure Lawler, Standard History of America, (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1933), illus. f. p. 460; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 209
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/7/2006