Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Fall Hunt; Three Hunters with Hounds; Three Hunters and Hounds
Medium: Oil on canvas on hardboard
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
42 × 27 1/2 in. (106.7 × 69.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1158
Research Number: NCW: 1158
InscribedLower left: N C WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceProbably Street & Smith Publishers, New York, NY; (?); Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, 1972; (Frank E. Fowler); Mr. and Mrs. James Fowler, Nashville, TN; (Period Gallery, Nashville, TN); (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1973, as "The Fall Hunt"); Private collection, FL; (Christie's, New York, NY, March 13, 1996, lot no. 63, as "Three Hunters and Hounds"); (?); (W. Graham Arader, III, New York, NY, 1998); Private collection; (W. Graham Arader, III, Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 2006)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 269; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.301, p. 210
Curatorial RemarksThis painting is directly related to NCW 396, a calendar image advertising gun powders published in 1910. The two together show that the artist was not adverse to cutting corners where commercial work was concerned. Over twenty years later, Wyeth again adapted the image, for "The Three Hunters," (NCW 1154), a 1933 calendar image for Hercules.;According to Frank Fowler, the hunter on the left in picture is the father of his friend Colin Curtis.The father was an Englishman who wrote of outdoor sporting magazines. Research shows that Captain Paul Curtis was the gun editor of Field and Stream Magazine; FF does not recall his friend's father's name.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency
Photo Credit:Courtesy of W. Graham Arader III Galleries, 4/2006