Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"An almighty exciting race"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1847
Research Number: NCW: 1847
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / -1905- (from reproduction)
ProvenanceThe artist
References
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," The News Journal, March 6, 1906, p. 4; Edwin L. Sabin, On the Plains with Custer (New York: Lippencott, 1913), dust jacket illustration; Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America/1900-1960s (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1966), illustration in b/w, p. 73; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 266, illustration in b/w, p. 34; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.60, p. 120
Curatorial Remarks"Arizona Nights" was serialized through five issues of McClure's. The January and February installments were illustrated by the veteran western artist Charles M. Russell. N. C. Wyeth illustrated the March - May issues, a feather in the young artist's cap. Wyeth wrote, "(McClure's) have complimented me by reproducing my cowboy fight I made for them in color and also they gave me back my originals" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, Excuse the pencil...," dated in another hand Nov. 24, 1905).
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines" (unknown newspaper, Wilmington, DE, March 1906; BRMA NCW collection) "Wyeth is represented sufficiently this month to assure his popularity and warrant the establishment of a reputation had that not been achieved some time ago....He has recently taken up the illustration for the "Arizona Nights" series in McClure’s. "The Cattleman’s Yarn" inspired a colored frontispiece and another full page, racy with horses, cow punchers and other local color of Arizona."
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines" (unknown newspaper, Wilmington, DE, March 1906; BRMA NCW collection) "Wyeth is represented sufficiently this month to assure his popularity and warrant the establishment of a reputation had that not been achieved some time ago....He has recently taken up the illustration for the "Arizona Nights" series in McClure’s. "The Cattleman’s Yarn" inspired a colored frontispiece and another full page, racy with horses, cow punchers and other local color of Arizona."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, McClure's tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer