Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, with capital letter "W"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, with capital letter "W"

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
The Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1073
Research Number: NCW: 1073
Inscribedlower left (to left of capital "W"): W
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 11/68, #54864)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 83; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 24; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 6
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.383, p. 243
Curatorial RemarksIt is possible that this and other chapter headings originally were planned to be ink drawings. This image also exists in a version drawn in pen and ink on artist's board (NCW 77).
The 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).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/2002