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Louise Loved to Climb to the Summit of One of the Barren Hills Flanking the River, and Stand There While the Wind Blew.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Louise Loved to Climb to the Summit of One of the Barren Hills Flanking the River, and Stand There While the Wind Blew.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1907
Dimensions:
38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.968
Research Number: NCW: 968
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 07
Provenancepossibly Estate of William Randolph Hearst; (Ronald R. Randall, John Howell-Books, San Francisco, CA, 1971); Hills family, San Francisco, CA, and descended to Collection of Reuben W. Hills III; Owned by the Estate of Reuben W. Hills III; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 24, 2006, lot no. 100, unsold)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p.199; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.169, p. 160
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Sotheby's