Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Brook in Winter, Chadds Ford
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1911 / 1912
Dimensions:
26 × 24 in. (66 × 61 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.371
Research Number: NCW: 371
InscribedOn reverse of canvas, written by Andrew Wyeth, ca. 1999: This painting was painted by my father in 1916. Andrew Wyeth
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to ca. 1976; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); Private collection, FL; Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN, ca. 1996; (?); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1999-2002)
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.57, p. 717-718
Curatorial RemarksThe title of this painting comes from an inventory card written by Carolyn Wyeth (Carolyn Wyeth inventory, Brandywine River Museum library). According to Jane Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth identified the Kuerner farm in the left background and dated the painting to 1916 (Jane Wyeth to Christine B. Podmaniczky, June 13, 2001, Brandywine River Museum curatorial files). The work is dated here in relation to other pieces done during the winter of 1911 / 1912, when Wyeth was particularly active in landscape painting (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, March 13. 1912, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Somerville Manning Gallery