He stopped his horse within a few paces of the sentry. "Good morning, brother!" he exclaimed. "Lord! I'm glad to see somebody! This is Rockfish, isn't it?"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

He stopped his horse within a few paces of the sentry. "Good morning, brother!" he exclaimed. "Lord! I'm glad to see somebody! This is Rockfish, isn't it?"

Alternate Title(s):The sentry stared. Radcliffe's manner of address took him by surprise

Date: 1912

Dimensions:

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known by reproduction only

Accession number: SUPP2000.1652

Research Number: NCW: 1652

InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)

References Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 412; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972) ps. 258, 233; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.430, p. 257

Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006

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He stopped his horse within a few paces of the sentry. "Good morning, brother!" he exclaimed. "Lord! I'm glad to see somebody! This is Rockfish, isn't it?"

N.C. Wyeth

He stopped his horse within a few paces of the sentry. "Good morning, brother!" he exclaimed. "Lord! I'm glad to see somebody! This is Rockfish, isn't it?"