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Sir Nat and the Horse Johnny watched Sir Nat rub the gray muzzle, run a quick hand down the ewe neck, stand back critically and proceed to a minute and systematic inspection of the antique nag

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Sir Nat and the Horse
Johnny watched Sir Nat rub the gray muzzle, run a quick hand down the ewe neck, stand back critically and proceed to a minute and systematic inspection of the antique nag

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Collection of the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.433
Research Number: NCW: 433
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1986); (?); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1998)
Exhibition HistoryMemphis, TN, 1983, cat. no. 31 p. 95, illustration in b/w no. 41 p. 55; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth, Illustrations and Landscape Paintings," Oct. 13--Nov. 11, 2006, illus. (unpaginated)
References Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 11; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 199; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1069, p. 504
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission and marked with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photo files