Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
One day a band of fifteen Indians jammed me in a sand ravine. I made a running fight for eleven miles, but went unscathed and had a lead of two miles at Sweetwater Bridge.
Alternate Title(s):The Chase; Pursued by fifteen bloodthirsty Indians, I had a running fight of eleven miles.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
17 1/2 × 38 1/2 in. (44.5 × 97.8 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.710
Research Number: NCW: 710
InscribedRight side below image: N. C. W. (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1953; (Brandywine Galleries, Albuquerque, NM, 1953); Lewis W. Douglas for Southern Arizona Bank and Trust, Phoenix, AZ, 1953-1975; (by corporate merger) First National Bank of Arizona; (by corporate merger) First Interstate Bank of Arizona
Exhibition HistoryTucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commemoration," 20 Aug 20 - Sept. 19, 1975; Sun City, AZ, Sun Cities Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth, Remington and Russell," Jan. 10 - Feb. 3, 1988
References
William F. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1920), illus. f. p. 208; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 260; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., 1992), ps. 4-5, as "The Chase"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.644, p. 336
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003