Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/They travelled all day through the ever-increasing cold, speaking but little, their faces covered from the deadly frost./

They travelled all day through the ever-increasing cold, speaking but little, their faces covered from the deadly frost.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

They travelled all day through the ever-increasing cold, speaking but little, their faces covered from the deadly frost.

Medium: Charcoal
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2002
Research Number: NCW: 2002
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.506, p. 288
Curatorial RemarksThis illustration has qualities of a drawing and according to Scribner's records (Brandywine River Museum library, Scribner's archives, # 30685) it was classified under "Style" as "charcoal." It may have been created with charcoal and water or oil-based wash on a canvas or paper support. Wyeth's correspondence does not clarify the issue.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from print source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006