Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Over hill and holler and ford and creek / Jest like the hosses had wings, we tore
Alternate Title(s):Golyer's Ben
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
location unknown, Copyright, 1912, Houghton Mifflin Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.1147
Research Number: NCW: 1147
ProvenanceThe artist to Dec. 1914; (Whitney Studio, New York, NY, Dec. 1914)
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1913, no. 723, as "Golyer's Ben"; New York, NY, Whitney Studio, "50-50 Sale and Exhibition," Dec. 1914
References
Jeff C. Dykes, "Tentative Bibliographic Lists of Western Illustrators," American Book Collector, May 1968, illustration; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.401, p. 248
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
In Dec. 1914, the artist sent this painting to an exhibition and sale to benefit the American Ambulance Hospital, Paris (see NCW to HZW, Dec. 10, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives and Whitney Studio Archives, F. M. Achilles Library, Whitney Museum of American Art).
In Dec. 1914, the artist sent this painting to an exhibition and sale to benefit the American Ambulance Hospital, Paris (see NCW to HZW, Dec. 10, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives and Whitney Studio Archives, F. M. Achilles Library, Whitney Museum of American Art).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed image, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2004