Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"An exhibition, sir, of self-effacement which shamed our puny civilized philanthropy"
Alternate Title(s):Hudson's Bay Encampment
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
22 × 32 in. (55.9 × 81.3 cm)
Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Frank H. Mackie, Jr., 1992
Accession number: SUPP2000.853
Research Number: NCW: 853
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1905
ProvenanceMr. Frank H. Mackie, by 1965 - 1994
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 41, as "Hudson's Bay Encampment"; Wilmington, DE, 1966, no. 17; Marietta, GA, 1998, no numbers; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2); Annville, PA, Lebanon Valley College, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Storyteller," Aug. 28 - Oct. 11, 2009
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C .Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 271, b/w illustration p. 29; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.82, p. 126
Curatorial Remarks"I have started and nigh completed a "Post" picture of an "Indian Potlache" (feast) which Mr. Pyle regrets very much that I should have to give it to that magazine because he likes it so much" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, The arrival of three letters..." and dated in another hand April 30, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:web: Rick Echelmeyer; hardcover: