Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
February
Alternate Title(s):Chadds Ford Winter
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1911 / 1912
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (63.8 × 76.5 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.250
Research Number: NCW: 250
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH; on right stretcher member in black block letters: FEBRUARY (sic) / NO. 10
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1948
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 8 as "February"; Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 112 (confirmed by installation photographs in Wyeth Family Archives); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "A Winter Gallery," Nov. 28, 1975 - Jan. 11, 1976; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
"Wyeth Paintings Shown in Philadelphia," (Wilmington, DE) Morning News, Nov. 20, 1912, p. 8; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.54, p. 717
Curatorial RemarksThe dating of this work is based on Wyeth's remark "Have done considerable landscape work this winter and have advanced (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, March 13, 1912, Wyeth Family Archives). Those paintings that have been positively identified as being shown in Philadelphia in 1912 have numbers on the stretchers that differ by one or two from the numbers on the checklist.
The village of Chadds Ford is seen from a site along Creek Road, looking south past the John Chad house and the barn below it. The barn no longer stands.
The village of Chadds Ford is seen from a site along Creek Road, looking south past the John Chad house and the barn below it. The barn no longer stands.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Schneck, 2002