Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Fight at Volusia
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.1486
Research Number: NCW: 1486
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); painted on the reverse of the panel: THE FIGHT AT VOLUSIA (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 758, dated 3/24/39; written on panel label in blue crayon: 8
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1946; Private collection; descended in family
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941
References
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, illustrated vol. I, p. 249 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1966); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1275, p. 575
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/2006