Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Now Major, for the best part of the game"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1935
Dimensions:
47 × 36 in. (119.4 × 91.4 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1378
Research Number: NCW: 1378
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceFrankfort Distilleries, to 1955; Private collection, Farmington, CT, 1955 to at least 1983; (?); Raymond E. Holland Automotive Art Collection, Allentown, PA, by 1989; Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth, Illustrations and Landscape Paintings," Oct. 13--Nov. 11, 2006, illus. (unpaginated)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 294; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.104, p. 671
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the Schoonover Fund, 3/2002