Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sam Houston, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal and graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1938 / 1939
Dimensions:
17 1/8 x 15 7/8 in. (43.5 x 40.3 cm), image
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Ray Mortenson, 2013
Accession number: 2013.12
Research Number: NCW: 1406
InscribedLower right: N.C.W; below image in center: Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto / "Remember the Alamo"
Provenance(?); Mrs. James P. Simpson, Wilmington, DE; C. Walter Mortenson
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.164) used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel (NCW 302).