Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
I Got Behind a Turn and Fired as a Man Came on Alone
Alternate Title(s):The Chase
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
approximately 38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander Hodges
Accession number: SUPP2000.224
Research Number: NCW: 224
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined) / 06
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (?); Collection of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth, by 1975; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN)
Exhibition HistoryMemphis, TN, 1983, catalogue no. 23 p. 94, b/w illustration p. 44
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 179-180; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 228, 274; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.162, p. 158
Curatorial RemarksHoward Pyle realized that improvements in the technology of color printing were occurring rapidly and would great affect the publishing business. He exhorted his students to concentrate on color for this reason. Wyeth was painting mostly in color by 1906. Scribner's had intended to publish the two illustrations for "The Aide-de-Camp" in black and white, but the editors decided on color reproductions when they saw the finished pictures. Furthermore, "Andrews, (the best plate maker this side of the water)" would make the engravings (Wyeth, ed., above).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Brenner, 8/2005