Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Untitled (coastal scene with apple tree in foreground)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1936
Dimensions:
48 1/2 × 40 in. (123.2 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.505
Research Number: NCW: 505
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on verso of canvas, u.l. in unidentified hand: PAINTING / BY N.C.WYETH; on bottom stretcher bar, in script in unidentified hand: [possibly] Jetty Tree [or little tree]
Provenancereceived as a gift in 1954, and descended in family; [Philadelphia, PA, Freeman's, "American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists," June 4, 2023, lot no. 40, as "Jetty Tree"];
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine Museum of Art, extended loan for public exhibition, May 2021 - October 2022
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.199, p. 767
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was dated by Andrew Wyeth, who remembered the work and the scene, the Hupper property adjacent to Eight Bells.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rudinec & Associates, 1/17/2006