Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Often the road was hot and dusty
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Canvas reused; see NCW 1947
Accession number: SUPP2000.1673
Research Number: NCW: 1673
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / 05 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCanvas was painted over--see I-247 (NCW 1947)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.54, p. 119
Curatorial Remarks"Have you seen my two pictures in Harper's this month? Bum (underlined) reproductions!" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, I didn't write to you last week..." and dated in another hand Sept. 25, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, N. C. Wyeth archives, scrapbook B)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/7/2006