Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Brook Hill Home and Two Children Playing
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1913 / 1915
Dimensions:
approximately 25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1196
Research Number: NCW: 1196
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); Collection of Mr. James C. Ryan, Jr., 1974
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 96, as "Brook Hill Home and Two Children Playing"
References
Edwin Pitts, "N. C. Wyeth in Appalachia," The Art Gallery Magazine (March 1974), illustration in b/w p. 63; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.92, p. 727
Curatorial RemarksThere seems to be no archival authority for the title used in the 1974 exhibition. The work is probably No. 35 in Carolyn Wyeth's inventory of her father's studio as "Henriette and Carolyn wading in Brook, Chadds Ford" (Brandywine River Museum library). Andrew Wyeth identified the location as "Sugar Loaf," a hill in Chadds Ford that was a favorite family picnic site and a frequent reference in Wyeth's letters.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from painting