George Washington at Yorktown, composition drawing

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

George Washington at Yorktown, composition drawing

Medium: Charcoal and brown pencil on paper
Date: ca. 1939
Dimensions:
sight: 29 1/2 x 27 3/4 in. ( 74.9 x 70.4 cm), to outside of artist's outline
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2355
Research Number: NCW: 2355
InscribedLower left: To my friend Theodore (illegible) / from N. C. Wyeth / May 1939; lower right: N. C. W.
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to (name illegible); (?); Private collection, Boothwyn, PA; Basil C. Clare, PA, and descended in family to at least 3/2004
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.159) of this composition drawing, used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:from lantern slide (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1825.159)