Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Forresters Go to Town
Alternate Title(s):The Forrester Brothers
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
29 × 21 in. (73.7 × 53.3 cm)
Thomas Frazier Joy, United States of America
Accession number: SUPP2000.837
Research Number: NCW: 837
InscribedUpper right: N C WYETH (underlined); Renaissance Panel label adhered to reverse, no. 765 dated 3/24/39
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, to 1946; Collection of S. Alden Perrine, and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryFitchburg, MA, 1940; probably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Washington, DC, 1946, no. 29, as "The Forrester Brothers"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1281, p. 577
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:David Ulmer Photography, 12/2005