Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Village Street, Port Clyde, Maine, composition sketch with color notations
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: 1944
Dimensions:
13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (35.2 × 42.9 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2215
Research Number: NCW: 2215
InscribedExtensive color notations written over composition; in upper right corner: window panes varying / degrees of slate purple / and (?) / reflections / in front bay window / Blue reflections in panes / under back porch.
From left to right above image: dark warm gray; moleskin gray; cool; (?) with (?) edge; cool; all shutters varying degrees of green from (?) to blinds; brick; bright flashing; warmer; gray chimney; gray (?) barn / with white paint / under corners.
From left to right across bottom of image: warm brick; green lattice
From left to right above image: dark warm gray; moleskin gray; cool; (?) with (?) edge; cool; all shutters varying degrees of green from (?) to blinds; brick; bright flashing; warmer; gray chimney; gray (?) barn / with white paint / under corners.
From left to right across bottom of image: warm brick; green lattice
ProvenanceThe artist; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 192
Curatorial RemarksThis drawing must have been done on the site; the extensive color annotations were obviously made to aid the artist's memory later in the studio. In NCW 2047, the architectural details of the composition are more carefully rendered.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer